Dear tags, ETI & GBIF is working on a software that wants to produce TCS as RDF documents. The question the developers are facing now is how can they test and make sure that the resulting RDF is "valid" according to the ontology? Validation for the syntactical correctness of RDF can be done, but validation against OWL, does that work? Can you check that all the URIs used in the RDF instances are defined in a certain ontology for example? And should TDWG maybe provide a conformance test for all its standards, maybe even requiring such a test for a standard before it is accepted?

In particular I wonder if anyone has experience with the following tools or knows about others? Maybe Protege has something to offer too?

http://jena.sourceforge.net/Eyeball/brief.html http://139.91.183.30:9090/RDF/VRP/index.html

thanks, Markus