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RDF-Generator-Void-0.01_15
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NAME

RDF::Generator::Void - Generate VoID descriptions based on data in an RDF model

VERSION

Version 0.01_15

Note that this is an early alpha release. It has pretty limited functionality, and there may very significant changes in this module coming up really soon.

SYNOPSIS

use RDF::Generator::Void;
use RDF::Trine::Model;
my $mymodel   = RDF::Trine::Model->temporary_model;
[add some data to $mymodel here]
my $generator = RDF::Generator::Void->new(inmodel => $mymodel);
$generator->urispace('http://example.org');
$generator->add_endpoints('http://example.org/sparql');
my $voidmodel = $generator->generate;

DESCRIPTION

This module takes a RDF::Trine::Model object as input to the constructor, and based on the data in that model as well as data supplied by the user, it creates a new model with a VoID description of the data in the model.

For a description of VoID, see http://www.w3.org/TR/void/.

METHODS

new(inmodel => $mymodel, dataset_uri => URI->new($dataset_uri));

The constructor. It can be called with two parameters, namely, inmodel which is a model we want to describe and dataset_uri, which is the URI we want to use for the description. Users should make sure it is possible to get this with HTTP. If this is not possible, you may leave this field empty so that a simple URN can be created for you as a default.

inmodel

Read-only accessor for the model used in description creation.

dataset_uri

Read-only accessor for the URI to the dataset.

Property Attributes

The below attributes concern some essential properties in the VoID vocabulary. They are mostly arrays, and can be manipulated using array methods. Methods starting with all_ will return an array of unique values. Methods starting with add_ takes a list of values to add, and those starting with has_no_ return a boolean value, false if the array is empty.

vocabulary, all_vocabularies, add_vocabularies, has_no_vocabularies

Methods to manipulate a list of vocabularies used in the dataset. The values should be a string that represents the URI of a vocabulary.

endpoint, all_endpoints, add_endpoints, has_no_endpoints

Methods to manipulate a list of SPARQL endpoints that can be used to query the dataset. The values should be a string that represents the URI of a SPARQL endpoint.

title, all_titles, add_titles, has_no_titles

Methods to manipulate the titles of the datasets. The values should be RDF::Trine::Node::Literal objects, and should be set with language. Typically, you would have a value per language.

license, all_licenses, add_licenses, has_no_licenses

Methods to manipulate a list of licenses that regulates the use of the dataset. The values should be a string that represents the URI of a license.

urispace, has_urispace

This method is used to set the URI prefix string that will match the entities in your dataset. The computation of the number of entities depends on this being set. has_urispace can be used to check if it is set.

Running this stuff

stats, clear_stats, has_stats

Method to compute a statistical summary for the data in the dataset, such as the number of entities, predicates, etc. clear_stats will clear the statistics and has_stats will return true if exists.

generate

Returns the VoID as an RDF::Trine::Model.

AUTHORS

Kjetil Kjernsmo <kjetilk@cpan.org> Toby Inkster <tobyink@cpan.org> Tope Omitola, <tope.omitola at googlemail.com>

TODO

  • Allow arbitrary RDF to be added to the VoID.

  • Larger test dataset for more extensive tests.

  • URI regexps support.

  • Partitioning based on properties and classes.

  • Technical features (esp. serializations).

  • Example resources and root resources.

  • Data dumps.

  • Subject classification.

  • Method to disable heuristics.

  • More heuristics.

  • Linkset descriptions.

  • Set URI space on partitions.

  • Conditional updates based on model ETags.

BUGS

Please report any bugs you find to https://github.com/kjetilk/RDF-Generator-Void/issues

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

perldoc RDF::Generator::Void

The Perl and RDF community website is at http://www.perlrdf.org/ where you can also find a mailing list to direct questions to.

You can also look for information at:

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2012 Tope Omitola, Kjetil Kjernsmo, Toby Inkster.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License.

See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.