Triplification / RDF extraction for bugzillas and for Debian bugs

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 to work beyond these initial demonstrators, in order to try and push for a standard of interchange of “facts” / meta-data about bugs, for instance as RDF using the EvoOnt BOM ontology plus our extensions.

The paper describes the 2 first demonstrators that we’ve setup (and for which I previously blogged) : one for the triplification of bugzilla, and one for the triplification about Debian bugs, using UDD to do so.

Abstract: To interconnect bugtrackers, and especially the one used to manage free
software projects, one need tools to convert their custom format to a common interop-
erable form. We, in the context of the Helios project, are working on refining existing
ontologies to describe bugs from the most used bugtrackers in open source software. We
propose two prototypes for review, based on triplify and EvoOnt BOM, which export
bugs from bugzilla installations and Debian’s UDD in the form of RDF triples.

Read the rest in “Bugtrackers triplification” (PDF)

Hello Planet Debian

Hi all Debian news addicts. If all goes well, I should now be part of the Debian planet, thanks to the good Planet Maintainers.

In a few words, I’m a Debian Maintainer, and long time Debian fan (although sometimes disappointed by it, but love hate relationship is sustainable in the long run, it seems ;)).

My most significant contributions have been on helping maintain bts-link… and generally I’m interested very much in bugtracking, Semantic Web, and tying that with what’s done in Debian and more generally in Free Software. I’m focusing on these aspects as part of our Helios project funded to work on producing FLOSS 🙂

My debian tag‘s feed will tell more about me and my progress in contributing to Debian, from now on.

Convert OWLDoc generated HTML documentation of an ontology to single HTML file

For the needs of the Helios project, I’ve written a script which uses htmldoc to convert the multi-framed HTML documentation as generated by Protege’s OWLDoc plugin to a single HTML document.

Example : the Helios_BT ontology documentation generated by OWLDoc, and the result in one single HTML document.

The Python script is at : owldoc2htmldoc.py (see also the README).

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

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 export bug facts for bugzilla as RDF, using EvoOnt BOM, FOAF and SIOC.

You’ll find all the details here : https://picoforge.int-evry.fr/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Helios_wp3/Web/TriplifyBugzillaToRdf as well as a link to the demonstrator.

We’re now looking for candidate Bugzilla owners to test it on real bugs, and why not, to deploy it to contribute to LinkedData with bugs of OpenSource projects.