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<p class="MsoNormal">Am happy to report updated release of X3D Ontology distribution. The ontology itself remains stable, we slowly keep improving tools and tests that show how it works.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">The X3D Ontology for Semantic Web provides terms of reference for semantic query of X3D models.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1"><a href="https://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/semantics/semantics.html">https://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/semantics/semantics.html</a><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Updated internal libraries include Saxon 10.6 for XSLT transformations and Apache Jena ARQ for queries. As usual, also tested in Protégé (screenshot attached).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">All unit tests pass as shown in build logs. Version-control diff (differencing) history reveals problems and progress.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1"><a href="https://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/semantics/build.all.log.txt">https://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/semantics/build.all.log.txt</a><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1"><a href="https://sourceforge.net/p/x3d/code/HEAD/tree/www.web3d.org/semantics/build.all.log.txt">https://sourceforge.net/p/x3d/code/HEAD/tree/www.web3d.org/semantics/build.all.log.txt</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Two interesting new references inform our thinking on this work.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">X3D Ontology, References: Books, Papers and Workshops, Specifications<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1"><a href="https://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/semantics/semantics.html#References">https://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/semantics/semantics.html#References</a>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">William Kent and Steve Hoberman, </span><a href="https://technicspub.com/data-and-reality" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Data and Reality</span></a><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">,
Technics Publications, third edition, 2012. "A timeless perspective on perceiving and managing information in our imprecise world." (</span><a href="http://www.bkent.net/Doc/darxrp.htm" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">excerpts</span></a><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">)
(</span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1753248.Data_and_Reality" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">goodreads</span></a><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">) (</span><a href="http://ambur.net/datareality.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Owen Ambur</span></a><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Jose E. Labra Gayo, Eric Prud’hommeaux, Iovka Boneva, and Dimitris Kontokostas, </span><a href="https://book.validatingrdf.com/"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Validating
RDF Data, Synthesis Lectures on the Semantic Web: Theory and Technology</span></a><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">, Vol. 7, No. 1, </span><a href="https://doi.org/10.2200/S00786ED1V01Y201707WBE016"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">DOI:
10.2200/S00786ED1V01Y201707WBE016</span></a><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">, Morgan & Claypool, 2018.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Recent work includes mapping Dublin Core document metadata from X3D meta elements into native expressions. We also hope to sort out a few XMP issues soon. Lots more long-term work to continue after that.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Have fun developing model queries using X3D Ontology! 8)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">all the best, Don<br>
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Don Brutzman Naval Postgraduate School, Code USW/Br brutzman@nps.edu<br>
Watkins 270, MOVES Institute, Monterey CA 93943-5000 USA +1.831.656.2149<br>
X3D graphics, virtual worlds, navy robotics </span><a href="http://faculty.nps.edu/brutzman"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New",serif">http://faculty.nps.edu/brutzman</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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