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ECS in RDF

ECS in RDF

Owner  :  The University of Southampton
Researcher  :  Nick Gibbins, Alastair Cummings, Marcus Cobden
Documentation/Demonstration  :  http://id.ecs.soton.ac.uk/docs/
Ontology  :  http://rdf.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ontology/ecs
Downloadable Programs  :  PHP Serializer

Conversion of large amounts of data from ECS into dynamically generated RDF. Most RDF was generated by reading directly from the ECS databases, although some obtained as a batch job from parsing xml based files.

A new ontology was created to logically model the data avaliable, and the system was implemented such that all resources have a URI resolvable by a web browser.
When resolved, the URIs redirect to a webpage or RDF (according to preconfigured MIME type preferences and client Accept headers). This system improves on the previously avaliable RDF, conforming better to the RDF best practices, and thus it works correctly in MIT's Tabulator program.

This system respects the DPA requirements of the University, providing documents with public and internal perspectives, and, in some cases, hiding some documents altogeather. The rdf generation is done using PHP and an extended version of Nick Gibbins' RDF serializer.