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A wonderful idea from hackdiary.com to author RDF using OpenOffice vector drawing application!

OpenOffice’s vector-drawing app has a very nice Visio-like ‘connector’ tool that can link objects together with lines. It’s very easy to put together labelled directed graph diagrams and have the lines re-flow as you move the nodes around.


It also has a well-documented XML file format, which got me thinking that graph drawings could be converted into RDF automatically. I wrote some python code to read in OO files and print out n-triples.

I see the article has been out for some time, but the idea is worth noting anyway.