[openbiblio-dev] BibJSON Validator?

Mark MacGillivray mark at odaesa.com
Thu Feb 16 01:33:00 UTC 2012


Last year a few of us considered various JSON formats for use in
bibserver. JSON-LD was one of them. Another is CSL.

If we have a strong requirement for schemas, validation, then perhaps
we should re-consider adopting JSON-LD or CSL.

Given the number of parsers we have now (bibtex and ris, perhaps marc
(and basic json/csv import)), it would not be hard to commit to one of
these alternatives at the moment. However if we go beyond the point at
which we have wider provision of parsing, it will become harder.

Is there any reason why we should create our own solutions to these
same requirements if we can already have them by taking up one of the
already available options?

We would need to either use the keys specified in CSL and use their
schema to validate, or use JSON-LD and choose the most appropriate
namespace(s) to use as our default.

https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/blob/master/csl-data.json
http://json-ld.org/spec/latest/


Mark



On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 7:09 PM, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 6:40 PM, Tom Morris <tfmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Edmund Chamberlain <emc59 at cam.ac.uk>
>> wrote:
>> > I've a barebones Perl based parser up as a gist:
>> >
>> > https://gist.github.com/1836836
>> >
>> > Should accept stdin. JSON seems valid but does
>> > not upload to bibsoup. Getting a 'unicode' object has no attribute
>> > 'get'.
>>
>> Is there a BibJSON validator available (or planned)?  I'm thinking of
>> something along the lines of the W3C validators for various types of
>> markup: http://validator.w3.org/
>>
>> Conversely, is there a suite of BibJSON test documents that all
>> BibJSON parsers should be able to process in a conformant manner a la
>> https://github.com/json-ld/json-ld.org/tree/master/test-suite
>>
>> Tom
>>
> I strongly support these ideas. I'm not deliberately offering to provide
> solutions but I have done a  lot of this in chemistry and found them
> essential. This includes:
> * syntactic validation (presumably any JSON parser should do this)
> * namespace validation (if used)
> * semantic validation. This requires us to write semantic specifications. I
> don't know how much we shall want to do. I can see this being valuable for
> core vocabulary (e.g. "title" vs "titel", allowed siblings, what elements
> can have lists, objects, etc.). This may include enumerations and value
> checking.
> * roundtripping. Can we read in an entry, store it and re-publish it
> * unit testing. Is entry A sameAs entry B. I imagine that in many cases
> sibling order is irrelevant. There may also be problems with comparing
> floats, dates, etc.
> * Locale and encoding problems. Do different locales emit different lexical
> representations? Thus 1.234 in UK may be rendered as 1,234 in some other
> European countries. Reading a date in TimeZone A might change the date in
> TimeZone B.
>
> I'm not saying these have to be done tomorrow, but at some stage we shall
> have to address them.
>
> P.
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