A Graphical RDF-Based Meta-Model Management Tool
Takeshi Morita · IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems · 2006
We propose a tool to manage several sorts of relationships among RDF (Resource Description Framework) and RDFS (RDF Schema).Our tool consists of three main functions: graphical editing of RDF descriptions, graphical editing of RDFS descriptions, and meta-model management facilities.In this paper, we focus on the meta-model management, a key concept which is defined as the appropriate management of the correspondence between a model and its meta-model: especially, the class and property in the meta-model, and the type of RDF resource and property in the model.The above facilities are implemented based on the plug-in system.We provide basic plug-in modules for checking the consistency of RDFS classes and properties.The prototyping tool, called MR 3 (Meta-Model Management based on RDFs Revision Reflection), is implemented by Java language.Through an experiment using MR 3 , we show how MR 3 contributes to the Semantic Web paradigm from the standpoint of RDFs description management.