Seeking Open Source Tools for Linked Data and Ontology Development

·Aug 22, 2022 09:36 AM

Hello together, I hope I am at the right place here with my question. At my company we started a project where we want to apply for the first time linked data/ontology concepts (more info: https://foodrisklabs.bfr.bund.de/fskx-food-safety-knowledge-exchange-format/). In this regard, we are searching for the right software tools (preferably Open Source) to use in our project. Do you have any tool (or software library) recommendations for 1. Collaborative maintainance and development of ontologies across interdisciplinary teams 2. for the transformation of excel data into predefined RDF format? Thank you very much in advance!

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Wolfgang S.
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Hi Mark, please find here a blog post describing a possibly related project: https://blog.metaphacts.com/a-knowledge-graph-for-the-agri-food-sector We (metaphacts) provide tools (commercial, not open-source) for ontology management and authoring, have a look if this might still be interesting for you. For transferring Excel data into RDF I would suggest to use RML or R2RML, see https://rml.io/ for some information.
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David H.
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For the second point, there's a few tools listed here: https://github.com/semantalytics/awesome-semantic-web/#excel - I can put you in contact with the person who originally wrote VocExcel if you are interested
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Michael G.
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https://docs.stardog.com/virtual-graphs/importing-json-csv-files
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Mark Kram
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thanks a lot! I will definetly look into them. Have got experience with any of the tools?
Michael G.
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i work at stardog, so i know that one pretty well 🙂
Donny W.
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I work with a team that uses https://linkml.io (open source) to collaboratively maintain and develop controlled vocabularies via GitHub. Also tools for spreadsheet I/O. It may work for you. Outputs to OWL et al.
Donny W.
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another open source tool I have used a bit and am starting to use more: TerminusDB (https://terminusdb.com/). RDF-based, spreadsheet I/O, with a focus on collaboration affordances (revision control) for schema and data. Also has a web UI for mgmt.