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width: 0pt;"> <!-- above is a hack to workaround a WinIE6 bug... --> </div> <!-- comment out for now, not needed <div id="announce"> <h2>Events & Meetings</h2> <ul> <li>@@TODO</li> </ul> </div> --> <!-- <div id="contents"> <h2>Page Contents</h2> <ul> <li><a href="#foo" shape="rect">foo. </a></li> <li><a href="#bar" shape="rect">bar.</a></li> </ul> </div> --> <h2 id="poolparty">SKOS 2009 Validator (PoolParty) </h2> <p><a href="http://poolparty.punkt.at/">PoolParty</a> offers a free <a href="http://demo.semantic-web.at:8080/SkosServices/check">SKOS Thesaurus Consistency Checker</a> service that lets you upload a thesaurus file in SKOS format and checks if the data is consistent. Consistency conditions defined in the SKOS specification are checked as well as some conditions that are mandatory for a thesaurus to be compatible for the PoolParty thesaurus management software. Check out this <a href="https://www.w3.org/2001/sw/wiki/SKOS_Consistency_Checker">page on the SKOS wiki</a> for most recent information and links.</p> <h2 id="w3c">W3C RDF Validation</h2> <p>Syntactic RDF validation can be performed using the <a href="https://www.w3.org/RDF/Validator/">W3C RDF Validation Service</a>.</p> <h2 id="others">SKOS validation and quality checking proposals</h2> <p>The SKOS wiki maintains a <a href="https://www.w3.org/2001/sw/wiki/SKOS/Validation">list of proposed frameworks for SKOS data validation and quality checking</a>.</p> <p>Various SKOS editors also implement some form of validation. See the <a href="https://www.w3.org/2001/sw/wiki/Special:SearchByProperty/SW-20Technology/SKOS">SKOS tools on the W3C wiki</a>.</p> <!-- SKOS 2005 Validator is DEPRECATED <h2 id="notes">SKOS 2005 Validator (for legacy data)</h2> <p><strong>N.B. THIS SERVICE IS HIGHLY EXPERIMENTAL!</strong> See the <a href="#notes">notes on using</a> below.</p> <form action="http://isegserv.itd.rl.ac.uk/schemarama/service" method="get"> <table> <tr><td colspan="2"><h3>Test Data</h3></td></tr> <tr> <td><label for="dataurl">URL:</label></td> <td><input type="text" size="80" name="dataurl" id="dataurl"/></td> </tr> <tr> <td><label for="datalang">RDF Syntax:</label></td> <td> <select name="datalang" id="datalang"> <option value="RDF/XML">RDF/XML</option> <option value="N3">Notation3/Turtle</option> <option value="N-TRIPLES">N-Triples</option> </select> </td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2"><h3>Test Case</h3></td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><input type="radio" name="caseurl" value="http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/schemarama/basictestcase" checked="checked"/> Basic integrity test case<br/><input type="radio" name="caseurl" value="http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/schemarama/thesaurustestcase"/> Thesaurus compatibility test case (includes basic integrity tests)<input type="hidden" name="caselang" value="N3"/></td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2"><h3><input type="submit" value="Validate"/></h3></td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><br/> Try e.g.: <ul><li>http://isegserv.itd.rl.ac.uk/cvs-public/~checkout~/skos/schemarama/data/baddatabasic.turtle [Turtle]</li> <li>http://isegserv.itd.rl.ac.uk/cvs-public/~checkout~/skos/schemarama/data/baddatathesaurus.turtle [Turtle]</li> </ul></td> </tr> </table> </form> <h3 id="notes">Notes on using the SKOS 2005 validation service</h3> <p>The 'validation' is performed by a <a href="http://isegserv.itd.rl.ac.uk/schemarama/">Schemarama 2 service</a>, and the Schemarama 2 framework is highly experimental. Note also that the service uses the <a href="http://isegserv.itd.rl.ac.uk/cvs-public/~checkout~/skos/drafts/integrity.html?rev=1.7">SKOS Core Integrity Testing and Quality Assurance</a> tests, which are highly experimental.</p> <p>A couple of practical notes about using this service:</p> <p>(1) This service does not perform RDF syntax validation, and it is recommended that you perform RDF syntax validation on your data before submitting it to this service, e.g. see the <a href="http://www.w3.org/RDF/Validator/">W3C RDF Validation Service</a>.</p> <p>(2) This service reloads your data each time a test is run. This means that large data sets may take time to load. It also means that if you want to perform repeated tests on a large data set you may want to deploy your own <a href="http://isegserv.itd.rl.ac.uk/schemarama/">Schemarama 2 service</a> rather than repeatedly submitting to this service.</p> <p>(3) The current strategy used by this service for checking circularity constraints doesn't scale very well, so anything more than a few hundred concepts might take a very long time to complete.</p> --> <!-- end main --> </div> <div id="footer"> <h2>Document Information</h2> <div class="copyright"> <p><a rel="Copyright" href="/Consortium/Legal/ipr-notice#Copyright">Copyright</a> © 1994-2012 <a href="/"><acronym title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</acronym></a><sup>®</sup> (<a href="http://www.csail.mit.edu/"><acronym title="Massachusetts Institute of Technology">MIT</acronym></a>, <a href="http://www.ercim.org/"><acronym title="European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics">ERCIM</acronym></a>, <a href="http://www.keio.ac.jp/">Keio</a>), All Rights Reserved. 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