[juc] Chris Dollin – Eyeball

Eyeball is a command-line tool for finding typical problems in RDF files. A “lint for RDF.” Or the “jena rdf screwup detection utility,” in danbri’s words.

Some of the errors that Eyeball can detect:

  • datatypes errors (integers with letters in them etc.)
  • weird-looking URIs
  • weird-looking namespace declarations
  • terms not declared in their schema file (can indicate typos)
  • cardinalities (to work around OWL’s weird open-world semantics)
  • domain/range problems (to work around RDFS’ weird semantics)

Eyeball detects many things that technically are legal, but from experience are likely unintended.

It’s easy to write new checkers (“inspectors”).

An online validator is planned. Yay!!!

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2 Responses to [juc] Chris Dollin – Eyeball

  1. Hari says:

    hey can any one tell me where can i find the tutorial on eyeball validator
    and if u know what is eyeball validator pls let le me know

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