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One aspect of the mini-projects at #sssw11 was to create a one minute video that was both humorous and contained reference to some innovative semantic technologies.

Our Mini-Project team, Don’t Move the Plants was intrigued by the signage in the residencia, so took that as our inspiration.  It is worth noting that all the text translation seen in the video is as translated by Word Lens, an iPhone app which translates words right before your eyes.

Don’t Move the Plants comprised myself, Esther Lozano, Andrea Nuzzolese, Ferdinand Dhombres and Luca Greco.

I’m at risk of over explaining the joke, so here is our winning entry.

A HowTo for running Jena Eyeball on Mac OSX.

1. Download the eyeball package somewhere convenient.
2. Create the following script somewhere convenient, then add it to your PATH.

   #!/bin/bash
   # script to run eyeball on a file or files
   
   FILES=$@
   FILEBASE="/YOUR/PATH/TO/eyeball-2.3"
   CLASSPATH="$FILEBASE/lib/antlr-2.7.5.jar:\
   $FILEBASE/lib/arq-extra.jar:\
   $FILEBASE/lib/arq.jar:\
   $FILEBASE/lib/commons-logging-1.1.1.jar:\
   $FILEBASE/lib/commons-logging.jar:\
   $FILEBASE/lib/concurrent.jar:\
   $FILEBASE/lib/eyeball.jar:\
   $FILEBASE/lib/icu4j_3_4.jar:\
   $FILEBASE/lib/iri.jar:\
   $FILEBASE/lib/jazzy-core.jar:\
   $FILEBASE/lib/jena.jar:\
   $FILEBASE/lib/jenatest.jar:\
   $FILEBASE/lib/json.jar:\
   $FILEBASE/lib/junit4.jar:\
   $FILEBASE/lib/log4j-1.2.12.jar:\
   $FILEBASE/lib/slf4j-api-1.5.6.jar:\
   $FILEBASE/lib/slf4j-log4j12-1.5.6.jar:\
   $FILEBASE/lib/stax-api-1.0.jar:\
   $FILEBASE/lib/wstx-asl-3.0.0.jar:\
   $FILEBASE/lib/xercesImpl.jar:\
   $FILEBASE/lib/xml-apis.jar:\
   $FILEBASE/lib/xsdlib.jar:\
   $FILEBASE/lib:\
   $FILEBASE/mirror:\
   $FILEBASE/etc"
   
   for file in $FILES
   do
   echo "======================================="
   echo "    Checking $file"
   echo "======================================="
   java -classpath "$CLASSPATH" jena.eyeball -check $file
   
   done

3. You may want to tell Jena what schemas you are using. I did this by downloading all the schema rdf or n3 files I could find to the {eyeball_install_dir}/mirror direectory, then adding the following to the end of the java command line:

   -assume owl dc-all `ls $FILEBASE/mirror/*`
   

   This means that we don’t get so many ‘predicate not declared’ messages when we will only ignore them.

Don’t you just love Java and its classpath loveliness… NOT.

Pho is a ruby gem for working with the Talis Platform written by a colleague at Talis, Leigh Dodds.

Having only just installed this on my home machine, I thought I would document how I did it ready for the next time.  There is a good chance I did something wrong which meant that I had to install some extra dependencies for the talis_store script (which is what I wanted pho for), but I don’t know enough about ruby to say what.

$ sudo apt-get install ruby
$ sudo apt-get install rubygems
$ sudo apt-get install ruby1.8-dev
$ sudo gem install pho

Then I wanted to find the executable talis_store because it wasn’t in my path.

$ sudo find / -name talis_store
$ ln -s /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin/talis_store ~/bin/talis_store

Then when running talis_store I had to work through an additional few unmet dependancies.

$ sudo gem install rdf
$ sudo gem install rdf-json
$ sudo gem install rdf-raptor

All done 🙂