Mapping bugzilla bugs to RDF as EvoOnt BOM ontology : RFC

[Olivier Berger]

Hello.

(I'm not subscribed to the list, so please pardon me in advance in
asking to keep me or our helios_wp3 list in CC: of any responses)

FYI, as part of our work on the Helios project [0], we've devised a
prototype of a small app based on triplify [1] to export data about
Bugzilla bugs as RDF, using the EvoOnt BOM [2] ontology (and
extensions).

We now have a prototype which can take a Bugzilla's DB and output RDF,
that will model relationships between people, bugs, comments, together
with some bugs properties.


We'd like to ask for review of interested people, and maybe try and
attract interest of bugzilla owners that would be willing to test this,
in order to validate the use of the ontologies, and see if we can
contribute to the Semantic Web and LinkedData [3].

Ultimately, we seek at improving the work of OpenSource maintainers in
allowing bug data to be found on the Semantic Web, in order to
facilitate the development of applications through the interoperability
offered by RDF and standard ontologies. Example of such applications
could be the monitoring of remote bugs status changes (thanks to the
recently added "see also" feature in bugzilla 3.4 ;), much like what
bts-link does in Debian.


You'll find more details at :
https://picoforge.int-evry.fr/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Helios_wp3/Web/TriplifyBugzillaToRdf and a protoype online at : http://kilauea.int-evry.fr:8081/triplify/bugzilla/ (starting point here for instance : http://kilauea.int-evry.fr:8081/triplify/bugzilla/person/1 )

Of course, RDF triples are best viewed with appropriate tools like
Firefox plugins like Tabulator.


Btw, there's a maybe more realistic prototype working on Debian bugs
data available at : http://kilauea.int-evry.fr:8081/triplify/UDD/ (more
details here :
https://picoforge.int-evry.fr/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Helios_wp3/Web/TriplifyUddToRdf )


Should you whish to test triplify on your Bugzilla, the code is
available here : [4].


Any comments, remarks, and flames (yes, triplify is PHP ;) much welcome.

Best regards,

[0] : https://picoforge.int-evry.fr/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Helios_wp3/Web/
[1] : http://triplify.org/
[2] : http://www.ifi.uzh.ch/ddis/evo/
[3] : http://LinkedData.org/
[4] : http://picoforge.int-evry.fr/websvn/listing.php?repname=helios_wp3&path=%2Ftrunk%2Ftriplify%2Fbugzilla%2F&rev=0&sc=0

P.S.: all our development are to be published as Free Software, btw.
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Olivier BERGER <olivier.berger at it-sudparis.eu>
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Ingénieur Recherche - Dept INF
Institut TELECOM, SudParis (http://www.it-sudparis.eu/), Evry (France)