GS1 namespace

[ziodave]

Version

5.3.0

Feature

GS1 is a schema.org vocabulary extension managed by the GS1 consortium and published here https://ref.gs1.org/voc/

Are you interested in contributing a solution yourself?

Yes

[afs]

Hi @ziodave

A vocabulary does not have to registered with the Jena core system to be used.

The files in "vocabularies/" aren't special - the code does not react to their presence and a constants file can be in any java package,

Mostly, they are W3C related or Jena-specific (W3C vocabaularies are usually quite stable).

The files provide convenience constants in Java, but they don't contain java for any domain/range declarations or any labels, or (as in the GS1 case) the owl:sameAs declarations.

To use in data, simply use the URIs, with or without a prefix declaration. No Jena setup necessary.

PREFIX gs1:      <https://ref.gs1.org/voc/>

To use in code, a schemagen translation of GS1 can be placed in any java package including your application.

The GS1 vocabulary changed in 2025-01 and changed several times in 2024. A copy in Jena is going to become out-of-date quite quickly. (The schema.org copy in vocabularies/ is over 4 years out of date.)

[ziodave]

Hi @afs , understood, I thought it would be helpful to have it.

Thanks for your quick reply.