Proposals

Catholic Semantic Web Proposals

Catechism RDF — by Rob Zaar — last modified 2007-04-01 18:25

Catechism RDF (Resource Description Framework) is a far deeper and more complex machine readable version of the Catechism. It does not just express where words are but how those words are linked. What the semantic linking of each word in the Catechism is. This would require work on the English, French and Latin versions. Once complete, this text would form a basis for natural language processing tools to be able to process other theological texts far more accurately and usefully.

Automatically Concept Map the Catechism — by Rob Zaar — last modified 2007-04-03 01:56

The proposal it to create some software to Automatically Concept Map the Catholic Catechism. This is the original research that led to cathnet.org and the idea of the Catholic Semantic Web.

Catholic XML — by Rob Zaar — last modified 2007-04-03 02:00

An XML schema that describes the Catholic Church. It is based on taking the Canon Law document and turning it into an XML. It should ultimately be a namespace run by the vatican.