Scute
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A Semantic Web hacking utility which will be documented here.
Source is available from github, though there's no guarantee it'll work at all until first release.
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Overview
Scute is a small, dedicated, standalone, free and open source (license) Java desktop tool designed to help with various common tasks encountered when working by hand with RDF data. It is targeted primarily at developers and experimenters, but hopefully it should also provide a useful learning/teaching tool. (It's a baby-steps attempt at the Semantic Web in a Box idea).
There are already plenty of fairly sophisticated tools out there (see Scute:Similar_Applications), but when working on early prototype material or rough & ready data input, such tools can be overkill. On the other hand, skipping between lots of little unconnected tools - text editors, command-line tools, online editors, validators, query engines etc - seems a really inefficient way of working (at least if, like me, you're not so hot on shell scripting). This hacky, close-to-the-wire side of development is the main target.
Scute is pronounced Ssssscccccccccccyyyyuuuooooooooooooooooooooooooooot
Status
2012-01-22 : after neglecting it for many months, I've started picking this back up again (I wanted an RDF-friendly text editor...). Looking back, the graph vs. file modeling/handling had got very confused, currently trying to make sane/
2011-03-29 : as below. Won't be releasing a build for another couple of weeks (though feel free to nosey around the source etc.). I just changed the handling of syntax files vs. model and haven't yet got everything in line with it, so right now it don't save the Turtle... Have been using the SPARQL bits daily, that part's not bad.
2011-03-07 : as below, SPARQL stuff proving time-consuming. Still a lot to do elsewhere, unlikely to be polished for 30th March release so that will be vewy vewy quiet...
2011-02-24 : as below, progressing nicely. Moved basic SPARQL stuff from v. 0.6 to 0.5 as there are a bunch of queries I need to write.
2011-01-26 : there isn't a release ready yet, but much of the functionality required for Version 0.5 (see below) is in place.
Features/Schedule
Planned for Version 0.5, first beta release 30th March 2011 - postponed a week or two - postponed about a year...
- Main Application
- Editing of RDF syntaxes (with syntax highlighting) : Turtle Editor, RDF/XML Editor
- Tree and Graph visualizations with editing
- Syntax Validation
- Basic SPARQL functionality (editing, query local graphs)
- Lint
- Basic (local) Graph Manager
- Set of Sample RDF Documents for various domains/tasks
- Documentation for all the above
Planned for Version 0.6
push all bugs/todos into github tracking
- RDFa editing (TBD)
- ...
Subsequent versions:
- HTTP client (for remote SPARQL etc)
- basic HTML (plus) browser
- built-in HTTP server (for linked data server etc)
- basic vocab management
- minimal plug-in system, with demonstrators:
- Talis Platform connector
- Pellet reasoner
- Scutter
- Agent Connector
- scripting/internal command shell
- non-GUI deployment as a basic Linked Data server
- full docs & tutorial, plus Semantic Web Document Package
...
Planned for Version 1.0
- all known bugs fixed
- core features freeze (until new specs come along)
- holiday
