QuoteEditor

It's 00H25 here, and while one of my programs is aligning some SNPs on the human genome, I'm going to describe the tiny tool I wrote this Week-end. QuoteEditor is a java editor used to store some famous quotes in a RDF/XML file. The java 'jar' and the documentation are available at :

http://code.google.com/p/lindenb/wiki/RDFQuotes

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Usage

java -jar lindenb/build/quotes.jar [-f <rdf-file> ]

the optional parameter '-f' is the name of the XML/RDF file where the quotes will be added. If this file does not exists, it will be created by QuoteEditor (default is ~/quotes.rdf )

The Interface

• Author: must be a URL or a name that must be resolved in wikipedia. For example 'Victor Hugo' will be resolved as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Hugo
• Source: a free text. The source of the quote
• Date: a free text: A date for this quote
• Keywords: one or more keywords ( or URL ) , space delimited. Each keyword must be resolved as a Category in wikipedia. For example Scientists will be resolved as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Scientists
• Quote Source: a free text. Where this quote was found
• lang: the language for this quote

each time a new quote is saved it will be added at the end of the rdf-file.

Result

Here is an example of RDF/XML file generated by QuoteEditor:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:q="urn:ontology:quotes:">
<q:Quote>
<q:quote xml:lang="fr">L'œil était dans la tombe et regardait Caïn.</q:quote>
<q:author rdf:resource="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor Hugo"/>
<q:source>La Conscience, from La Légende des siècles (1859),</q:source>
<q:date>1859</q:date>
<q:origin>http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Victor_Hugo</q:origin>
<q:subject rdf:resource="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Murders"/>
<q:subject rdf:resource="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remorse"/>
<q:subject rdf:resource="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Emotions"/>
</q:Quote>
<q:Quote>
<q:quote xml:lang="fr">Des mouches pour des enfants espiègles, voilà ce que nous sommes pour les Dieux ;
Ils nous tuent pour se divertir.</q:quote>
<q:author rdf:resource="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William Shakespeare"/>
<q:source>Le Roi Lear (1605), William Shakespeare</q:source>
<q:date>1605</q:date>
<q:origin>http://fr.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare</q:origin>
<q:subject rdf:resource="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:God"/>
<q:subject rdf:resource="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Crimes"/>
<q:subject rdf:resource="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Flies"/>
<q:subject rdf:resource="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Recreation"/>
</q:Quote>
(...)
</rdf:RDF>

That's it
Pierre

PS: Hum, my program mapping the SNPs is still running... 200Mo generated so far...