Tag Archives: RDF

ADMS.F/OSS : standardizing meta-data for software description in forges or software catalogues

Posted on 31/01/2012 by Olivier Berger

Maybe this could be of interest to a few of my readers who may have missed the announcement, in particular for ones related to forges which will be deployed for private administrations in Europe. The recently stared ADMS.F/OSS project is … Continue reading →

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Dynamically querying external (sub) projects properties with RDF in FusionForge

Posted on 29/08/2011 by Olivier Berger

I’ve been working recently on two plugins for FusionForge. The work is somehow a POC for some COCLICO dynamic interoperability work-package, but some outcomes may actually be of use someday in real life, who knows The first plugin is called … Continue reading →

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Qu’est-ce que OSLC (Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration) ?

Posted on 9/09/2010 by Olivier Berger

Ce qui suit est une traduction en français que j’ai réalisée pour les sections d’introduction aux spécifications d’OSLC Core. Je pense qu’elles donnent quelques informations générales sur ce qu’est le standard OSLC, qui seront éventuellement utiles aux non-anglophones. Bien-sûr cette … Continue reading →

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My report after the BOF on distributed bugtrackers at DebConf

Posted on 12/08/2010 by Olivier Berger

Here are my notes about the very insteresting BOF on distributed bugtrackers held at DebConf This is just some elements of report (some taken from the gobby edits, and written down by me after watching the video (unfortunately missing 2 … Continue reading →

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“Weaving a Semantic Web Across OSS Repositories: Unleashing a New Potential for Academia and Practice” published

Posted on 29/07/2010 by Olivier Berger

A new paper of ours was just published. If you’re curious about all that Semantic Web and Linked Data hype and how it would impact forges and other software development tools, and the link with Open Source development platforms, then, … Continue reading →

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LD2SD, Helios and Linked Data / SemWeb extracted from development forges

Posted on 17/03/2010 by Olivier Berger

We have received a visitor from DERI last week (PhD student Aftab Iqbal) who’s researching integration of facts about software development tools into Linked Data in order to provide interesting “semantic mashups” of data into IDEs like Eclipse (see his … Continue reading →

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First webcast of a demonstrator of our bug ontology’s use

Posted on 3/10/2009 by Olivier Berger

We have setup, as part of our work in Helios, a very early demonstrator of a database of RDF facts about bugs in several distributions (currently Debian and Mandriva), in order to try and validate the Ontology describing bugs that … Continue reading →

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Triplification / RDF extraction for bugzillas and for Debian bugs

Posted on 5/09/2009 by Olivier Berger

To summarize some ideas and try and promote the work we’ve done in the frame of Helios, we’ve submitted a short paper (PDF) to the triplification challenge. Alas, others had better projects, and we didn’t win, apparently. Still, we’ll continue … Continue reading →

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First Bugzilla triplify prototype released to validate ontologies for RDF (Linked Data for bugs)

Posted on 4/08/2009 by Olivier Berger

In the course of trying to propose Semantic Web ontologies that would suite the needs of the free software maintainers, in the frame of Helios, here’s another step. We’ve just released a first prototype of the use of triplify to … Continue reading →

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RDF from Debian bugs demonstrator online

Posted on 30/07/2009 by Olivier Berger

I’ve blogged often about our efforts around RDF and UDD in recent times. This time, we have used triplify to export contents of some tables of the Debian UDD database to provide information about Debian bugs facts as RDF feeds … Continue reading →

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2 presentations about Helios, Semantic Web, bugs, etc. at RMLL 2009

Posted on 24/07/2009 by Olivier Berger

In the “Development” track of the recent LSM/RMLL 2009, we (Stephane Laurière and me) have presented two related speeches, about the use of Semantic Web technology in the frame of Open Source projects development. Stéphane presented SWIM : Semantic Web … Continue reading →

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UDD export as RDF data through D2R and a corresponding mapping definition

Posted on 18/03/2009 by Olivier Berger

(this is a copy of a post I made on the debian-qa list) I’ve been pursuing previous ideas about the use of Semantic Web standards for publication of facts about Debian using the UDD database as a source. FYI, I … Continue reading →

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UDD, SWIM, Flossmetrics : facts databases about libre software distributions… going Semantic ?

Posted on 10/02/2009 by Olivier Berger

I’ve attended the recent FOSDEM 2009 (great as always), where a number of presentations triggered a lot of my interest. First @DebianRoom where Lucas presented UDD, the Universal Debian Database. This database groups facts about the Debian project, to ease … Continue reading →

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More RDF in forges and in open source repositories of repositories

Posted on 12/09/2008 by Olivier Berger

We have presented a paper at the WopDasD 2008 workshop (right after the OSS 2008 conference) in Milano, explaining how RDF could be used to propagate semantically tagged information from the forges to the “repositories of repositories” collecting facts on … Continue reading →

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Paper accepted at WoPDaSD 2008 : “Improving community awareness in software forges by semantical aggregation of tools feeds”

Posted on 16/07/2008 by Olivier Berger

We (Vu, Christian, Sang and me) have written a paper which was accepted for the fore-coming WoPDaSD 2008 workshop (3nd International Workshop on Public Data about Software Development), later this year in Milano. Here’s the abstract : Improving community awareness … Continue reading →

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