[occi-wg] RDF, RDFa and HTML

[Roger Menday]

hi Andy

thanks for posting this. I'm digesting (and I hope others are too).
I am very interested in seeing where OCCI can go with this - I hope to  
get back to you soon.

Roger

On 23 Jun 2010, at 12:44, Edmonds, AndrewX wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've been looking into how OCCI can expose itself through a HTML  
> serialization and to demarcate machine readable, semantic content.  
> To demarcate that content we already decided that we would use RDFa  
> [1]. In order to truly and correctly use RDFa we need to be able to  
> point to the ontology (model) in which subject, predicate and object  
> triplets are defined. Defining the ontology is somewhat easy, we  
> have it already with the OCCI model; it's just a matter of  
> expressing it in RDF. With an ontology in hand, we can define  
> semantically marked-up HTML with the ontology's vocabulary using the  
> facilities of RDFa. I've worked on 2 ways of expressing the OCCI  
> model in RDF.
>
> 1. Using python [2].
> 2. Using a modeling tool (Protégé) [3][4][5]. Note these owl files  
> may need their imports modified in Protégé.
>
> The only difference in the two is that occi.owl (core spec), occi- 
> infrastructure.owl (infrastructure spec) and occi-sla-at-soi.owl  
> (SLA at SOI extensions) are defined in separate files with the Protégé  
> approach. This should give folks an idea of how extensions for OCCI  
> can be introduced. However in both examples, occi-core, occi- 
> infrastructure and slasoi-infrastructure are separated by namespace.
>
> As RDFa does not explicitly define a rigorous structure for HTML  
> documents, and it shouldn't, we need to be able to express 2 basics  
> forms:
>
> 1. A concrete OCCI Kind instance (Compute, Storage, Network). I have  
> an example here [6].
> 2. A collection of OCCI Kind instances. I have an example here [7].  
> In this example values of objects are exposed using the 'content'  
> RDFa attribute [8].
>
> Each example may not be 100% perfect but what's most interesting is  
> when you run the each HTML rendering through a RDFa parser [9]  
> (examples here [10] [11]). The RDF extracted is quite along the  
> lines of what some might expect an OCCI POX format to be. Note, I'm  
> not advocating POX, just pointing to the flexibility of RDFa. There  
> are still some aspects to be worked out but I will follow up on  
> these in a separate mail (this one is long enough!).
>
> If you want to see how all of this visually looks then see here:  
> ontology only [12], ontology and graph instance [13].
>
> I'd really appreciate and love to hear people's comments, opinions  
> on this! :-)
>
> Andy
>
> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/rdfa-in-html/
> [2] http://dl.dropbox.com/u/165239/occi-rdf.py
> [3] http://dl.dropbox.com/u/165239/occi.owl
> [4] http://dl.dropbox.com/u/165239/occi-infrastructure.owl
> [5] http://dl.dropbox.com/u/165239/occi-sla-at-soi.owl
> [6] http://home.edmonds.be/occi-html5-rdfa-one.html
> [7] http://home.edmonds.be/occi-html5-rdfa-list.html
> [8] http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-rdfa-core-20100422/#s_syntax
> [9] http://www.w3.org/2007/08/pyRdfa
> [10] http://www.w3.org/2007/08/pyRdfa/extract?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fhome.edmonds.be%2Focci-html5-rdfa-one.html
> [11] http://www.w3.org/2007/08/pyRdfa/extract?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fhome.edmonds.be%2Focci-html5-rdfa-list.html
> [12] http://dl.dropbox.com/u/165239/occi-rdf-graph-rev2.png
> [13] http://dl.dropbox.com/u/165239/occi-rdf-graph-inst-rev2.png
>
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