CPAN as linked data

[Toby Inkster]

On Wed, 2010-04-07 at 21:31 +0200, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote:
> Oh, in RDF::RDFa::Template, I've called it web/doap.ttl and not
> included it in the distribution, but rather publish web/ on my
> website. Perhaps it should be included based on the directive in
> there?

The service really needs to have just one place to look for this
supplementary data - otherwise it would get tied up with making lots of
HTTP requests and never serve up anything. Right now, it's:

http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/${cpanid}/${dist}-${ver}/Changes.ttl

And it makes sure that the that file is in fact relevant by checking
that there exists at least one triple with this subject:

http://purl.org/NET/cpan-uri/dist/${dist}/project

So that it's not a mysterious thing that needs reverse-engineering to
figure out, I have now added the source code to my svn repo:

http://goddamn.co.uk/viewvc/misc/cpan-data/

> BTW, I would suggest adding     :programming-language "Perl" ; to the 
> suggested template. 

I do plan on automatically adding doap:programming-language for
"registered modules" as the module registration asks which language
they're in (sometimes not Perl).

I'll also add it to the Module::Install::DOAPChangeSets::Format pod.

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