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| 1 | +### Ontology-Verifier |
| 2 | +A RDF Ontology verifier and ontology trouble shooter for CASE/UCO. |
| 3 | + |
| 4 | +### What it does |
| 5 | +Ontology-Verifier takes output of a tool (JSON/JSON-LD/XML/etc...) |
| 6 | +and attempts to verify it aligns with a RDF based ontology (OWL/N3/ttl). |
| 7 | +Any entry in the tool's output that is NOT in the Ontology (specified via CLI) |
| 8 | +will display an error. CLI arugments can be added to cause a debugger to start |
| 9 | +so you may explore the graph to view where things went wrong. |
| 10 | + |
| 11 | + |
| 12 | +### How it works |
| 13 | +Verifier.py will read in an RDF vocabulary defined via ``` -g``` (glossary) to |
| 14 | +check a custom tool's output against via ```-i```. The Python library rdflib |
| 15 | +is used to turn the RDF schema into tripples which are then broken into three lists; |
| 16 | +subject, predicate and object. Finally, each element of the tools ouput within |
| 17 | +the tool's subject and predicate are checked againast the glossary's subject |
| 18 | +and predicate to confirm the existence of these RDF elements. If an element is |
| 19 | +found or not found it is displayed to the user. BNodes are skipped as they |
| 20 | +have no appropriate label in RDF and should not be used to verify an ontology. |
| 21 | + |
| 22 | + |
| 23 | +#### Why not SPARQL? |
| 24 | +In order to facilitate a broad range of ontologies and custom tool outputs, |
| 25 | +SPARQL queries are not used for verification. CASE/UCO allow for robust |
| 26 | +flexibility and this tool aims to compliment this approach. |
| 27 | + |
| 28 | + |
| 29 | +### Installation |
| 30 | +``` |
| 31 | +sudo pip install -r requirements.txt |
| 32 | +``` |
| 33 | + |
| 34 | +### Unit Tests |
| 35 | +The ontology verifier is heavily reliant on 3rd pary libraries, primarily RDFlib. |
| 36 | +RDFLib is under heavy development. To ensure compatability with new releases |
| 37 | +unit tests have been written to check for consistency. |
| 38 | + |
| 39 | +#### Run Unit Tests |
| 40 | +``` |
| 41 | +cd tests; |
| 42 | +python test_verifier.py; |
| 43 | +``` |
| 44 | + |
| 45 | +### Usage |
| 46 | + |
| 47 | +#### CLI Usage |
| 48 | +* ``` -g ```: Define the RDF schema (aka glossary) in use for your ontology. |
| 49 | +* ``` -gf ```: Define the format the schema is in. By default verifier |
| 50 | +will try to auto-guess based on extension. However, if additional plugins are |
| 51 | +installed it is best practice to manually specify it. |
| 52 | + |
| 53 | +* ``` -i ```: The external tool's output you want to verify the ontology |
| 54 | +against. |
| 55 | + |
| 56 | +* ```-if```: Define RDF schema for tool data that's being injested. |
| 57 | +* ```--debug```: Break on errors that occur within ```--verify```. |
| 58 | +* ```-tg```: Print subject, predicate, object for each graph within tool schema. |
| 59 | +* ```-gg```: Print subject, predicate, object for each graph within glossary schema. |
| 60 | + |
| 61 | + |
| 62 | +#### CLI Example |
| 63 | + |
| 64 | + |
| 65 | +* Check for inconsistencies between graphs: |
| 66 | + |
| 67 | +``` |
| 68 | +verify.py -g case.ttl -gf turtle -i output.json-ld -if json-ld --verify=1 |
| 69 | +``` |
| 70 | + |
| 71 | +* Check for inconsistencies between graphs with color output: |
| 72 | +``` |
| 73 | +verify.py -g case.ttl -gf turtle -i output.json-ld -if json-ld --verify=1 --color=1 |
| 74 | +``` |
| 75 | + |
| 76 | +* Enter debug mode. This will cause a PDB session to open when an inconsistency is met. This can be useful for manually navigating the RDF graph in Python.: |
| 77 | +``` |
| 78 | +verify.py -g case.ttl -gf turtle -i output.json-ld -if json-ld --verify=1 --debug=1 |
| 79 | +
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| 80 | +``` |
| 81 | + |
| 82 | +* Print all graphs for tool's schema. |
| 83 | + |
| 84 | +``` |
| 85 | +verify.py -g case.ttl -gf turtle -i output.json-ld -if json-ld -tg=1 |
| 86 | +
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| 87 | +``` |
| 88 | + |
| 89 | +* Print all graphs for ontology's schema. |
| 90 | + |
| 91 | +``` |
| 92 | +verify.py -g case.ttl -gf turtle -i output.json-ld -if json-ld -gg=1 |
| 93 | +
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| 94 | +``` |
| 95 | + |
| 96 | +### Submitting an Issue |
| 97 | +If/when you run into an issue with a given RDF schema format or the verifier.py script, please open an issue with the error |
| 98 | +and as much technical detail as you can provide. |
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