[NLP2RDF] Merging of the NIF Core Ontology and FISE from Apache Stanbol (and some other news)

[Sebastian Hellmann]

Good News Everyone!

Yesterday, I had a more detailed look at the FISE Ontology[1], which is 
supposed to provide an output format for Apache Stanbol [2]. After a 
while I found out that they fit together without major problems, so I 
went ahead and created a merging proposal! The NIF Core Ontology [3] is 
now dually licensed under CC-By 3.0 and Apache 2.0 to ease integration.
The NIF inf model ([4], line 92) documents the mapping from NIF-Core to 
Fise.  One minor problem is that FISE uses xsd:int and not 
xsd:nonNegativeInteger for indices.
The mapping is complete except for the (probably unnecessary) 
fise:entity-label.
(cross posting to Stanbol and NLP2RDF list)

Due to this merger, the creation of a release candidate for NIF 2.0 is 
coming along quite well now. The seven properties/classes (Context,  
String,  isString, RFC5147String, endIndex, beginIndex, 
referenceContext) at the core are already stable.

We included a lot of people in the attribution section[5] as well, but 
the list is not yet exhaustive.  Also there is a NIF validator software 
and  a logging ontology.
The Validator uses SPARQL 1.1 to produce log output adhering to the 
logging ontology.
* Jar for CLI (no webservice yet) [6]
* Readme [7]
* The SPARQL queries [8]


Please feel free to:
* download the validator and test it on your NIF implementation to see 
what changed
* check if we spelled your name correctly ;) in the attribution section 
[5].
* Please also tell us whether we should add your logo in the 
maintainer/supporter section
* check and extend the ontology and write some additional SPARQL queries[8]

Since we moved to GitHub now, we are also eager to give out push 
permissions....

All the best,
Sebastian


[1] http://fise.iks-project.eu/ontology/
[2] http://stanbol.apache.org/
[3] 
https://github.com/NLP2RDF/persistence.uni-leipzig.org/blob/master/ontologies/nif-core/version-1.0/nif-core.ttl
[4] 
https://github.com/NLP2RDF/persistence.uni-leipzig.org/blob/master/ontologies/nif-core/version-1.0/nif-core-inf.ttl#L92
[5] http://persistence.uni-leipzig.org/nlp2rdf/#attribution
[6] https://github.com/NLP2RDF/java-maven/raw/master/validate.jar
[7] 
https://github.com/NLP2RDF/java-maven/blob/master/README.md#nif-validator
[8] 
https://github.com/NLP2RDF/java-maven/tree/master/core/jena/src/main/resources/sparqltest

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Dipl. Inf. Sebastian Hellmann
Department of Computer Science, University of Leipzig
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