Ontogen
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About
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The goal of this microproject is to ease maintenance of RDF schemas,
vocabularies, ontologies... you name it.

Especially important for the author was to have some convenient
repository of representing the model to be externalized as RDF/XML,
and this model is a simple form of Python code that is, up to
some exceptions, imperative-less in nature.

Also documentation is an important aspect covered by Ontogen,
or more specifically, by ns-schema XSL template authored by
Masahide Kanzaki [1].  Luckily he published it under LGPLv2.1 so
there was no need to reinvent the wheel and the implication
is that this whole project is under LGPLv2.1 as well (see LICENSE).


Development and usage
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Primary development is centered around author's needs but any
collaboration is welcome.

As a kind of quick intro to starting custom vocabularies,
template.py file is provided.  When executed, generated RDF schema
as per included template is printed on stdout.

For the dependencies required when using quickstart/Makefile as
a base for the project refer to this file itself.


Credits
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- Masahide Kanzaki:
    as already mentioned, author of ns-schema.xsl [1] including
    auxiliary files to be found at "parts" dir [2]


[1] http://www.kanzaki.com/ns/ns-schema.xsl
[2] http://www.kanzaki.com/parts/* or http://www.kanzaki.com/ns/*

-- 
Jan Pokorny, project keeper