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# Briefly mentioning: The Briefcase

semweb @ 31 March 2008

An often overlooked component of is the application, but its incredibly clever!

It allows you to connect and browse file space and upload files, but its a lot more than this…

When you upload a file:

Uploading a file to Briefcase

It extracts metadata and other key information:

Viewing metadata of the file in briefcase

And you can tag the file (which will use SKOS, SCOT and MOAT):

Tagging a file in ODS Briefcase

And of course, this is all available as RDF, and can be cURLed on command line:
curl -H "Accept: application/rdf+xml" http://<virtuoso-server>/dataspace/danieljohnlewis/briefcase/Daniel%27s%20Briefcase
<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:rdfs="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#">
<rdf:Description rdf:about="http://<virtuoso-server>/dataspace/danieljohnlewis/briefcase/Daniel%27s%20Briefcase">
...
</rdf:Description></rdf:RDF>

and therefore is ready for machine reading (including SPARQL queries).

p.s. Uploading files can also be done using WebDAV, and metadata extraction will still occur.

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Update:

I forgot to mention, you can do this on any installation of OpenLink Data Spaces.. including:

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