4suite, Amara, Akara, Akamu: XML&RDF manipulation tools
Intro
4suite, Amara, Akara, Akamu is a set of XML&RDF manipulation tools
http://wiki.xml3k.org/, http://wiki.xml3k.org/Akara
- by U. and C. Ogbuji of Fourthought, Zepheira (Founding Partner), Case Western Reserve University
http://uche.ogbuji.net
http://wearekin.org
http://www.linkedin.com/in/ucheogbuji
http://twitter.com/uogbuji - They are in C/Python so we cannot use them direclty. But they hold valuable lessons for us:
- based on a metamodel from which they generate OWL schema, XForms, XSLT transforms XML->RDF
- XML->RDF are "faithful" transforms in that they extract all RDF content, and are invoked automatically to update RDF when the XML changes.
- It's possible to also have RDF->XML (bidirectional transformations)
http://code.google.com/p/akamu/wiki/DiglotFileSystemProtocol#Bidirectional_transformations
- active forum, seems active development
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/akara/fn2QQx2PQmw
Applications
- used in SemanticDB, a XML&RDF manipulation framework used for cardiac/vascular clinical research by Cleveland Clinic
http://www.academia.edu/905181/SemanticDB_A_Semantic_Web_Infrastructure_for_Clinical_Research_and_Quality_Reporting - used in Recollection, a data refinement/augmentation tool sponsored by Library of Congress and implemented by Zepheira. May be better than Google Refine
http://potlach.org/2010/recollection/da-list.swf
http://archive.xmlprague.cz/2011/presentations/uche-ogbuji-akara.pdf
and corresponding chapter in the XML Prague 2011 Proceedings
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