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Eyeball is a command-line tool for finding typical problems in RDF files. A “lint for RDF.” Or the “jena rdf screwup detection utility,” in danbri’s words.

Some of the errors that Eyeball can detect:

• datatypes errors (integers with letters in them etc.)
• weird-looking URIs
• weird-looking namespace declarations
• terms not declared in their schema file (can indicate typos)
• cardinalities (to work around OWL’s weird open-world semantics)
• domain/range problems (to work around RDFS’ weird semantics)

Eyeball detects many things that technically are legal, but from experience are likely unintended.

It’s easy to write new checkers (“inspectors”).

An online validator is planned. Yay!!!

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