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vapour

a web-based validator tool to check the compliance of a web site against the recipes described in the Best Practices Recipes for Publishing RDF Vocabularies

Vapour is a web-based validator tool developed by CTIC Foundation to check the compliance of a web site against the recipes described in the Best Practices Recipes for Publishing RDF Vocabularies (W3C Working Draft). It's written in Python and it's available as open source under W3C License. This work is not endorsed by W3C.

Demo

try our online demo, http://idi.fundacionctic.org/vapour

People involved

Development

All the development material of the project (code, documentation, etc.) is stored in its svn repository in SourceForge. Please, send any comment to the development mailing list or report bugs to the project's bug tracker.

Documentation

Papers

Talks

Architecture

Vapour has the following high level architecture:

Vapour's architecture

With three main modules:

cup
provides the web interface of the application
teapot
is the core of the application that launches HTTP dialogs, evaluates the responses and stores the results into the (in-memory) RDF store
strainer
generates the reports, both in XHTML and RDF/XML

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