Re: [xml-dev] How to convert ODP's rdf to W3C RDF/XML format

[Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>]

This is a well known problem.  I suggest starting here;

http://esw.w3.org/topic/DmozRdf

Mark.

On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 08:00:07PM +0800, WU Gang wrote:
> Below is some description of ODP RDF Dump:
> 
> There's an "Open Directory RDF Dump" in ODP(Open Directory Project)
> community which is for used to get the definitive directory of the Web for
> one's own site. It's free and available to everyone.  
>  
> Although data dump files are intended to be a valid W3C RDF model described
> in the W3C RDF/XML Syntax Specification, they are not. The current file
> format does, in some ways, resemble RDF but is by no means close to being
> actual RDF. Strict RDF parsers cannot parse the ODP dump file format at all.
> Some RDF parsers include both a standard RDF parser and an ODP/dmoz file
> parser.
> 
> I want to do some research on rdf, and need some large rdf data set like
> ODP. Does anybody have such experiment on converting ODP RDF Dump to W3C
> RDF/XML format? 
> 
> WU Gang
> Knowledge Engineering Group
> Tsinghua University
> 
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