NBBizKB

The New Brunswick Business Knowledge Base

First Published: February 2004

Last Updated: May 2004


The following resources are used to create selected sample facts of two RuleML fact bases and RuleML rules that consitute The New Brunswick Business Knowledge Base (NBBizKB).

The Biznet collection was imported into XML according to its original CSV format. The source of this CSV data is The 2002 Biznet Directory of Manufacturers and Selected Services to Industry compiled by The Government of New Brunswick, Canada.

1. Flat XML representation of a sample of the CSV biznet data:
biznetFlatSAMPLE.xml

2. XSLT to convert the flat Biznet XML format to a semantically-motivated and nested XML format:
biznetflat2nestedxml.xslt

3. The document type definition for the nested version of the biznet XML collection:
biznetent.dtd

4. Nested XML representation of a sample of the flat XML biznet data:
biznetSAMPLE.xml

5. XSLT to convert nested Biznet XML to a RuleML fact base:
biznetxml2ruleml.xslt

6. NBBizKB Biznet RuleML fact base:
biznetSAMPLE.ruleml


The Yahoo! collection was extracted from HTML presented on the Yahoo! Canada Business Finder.

1. XML representation of a sample of data extracted from Yahoo! :
yahooSAMPLE.xml

2. XSLT to convert extracted yahoo XML to a RuleML fact base:
yahooxml2ruleml.xslt

3. NBBizKB Yahoo! RuleML fact base:
yahooSAMPLE.ruleml


NBBizKB rules over the Biznet & Yahoo! fact bases.

1. NBBizKB Biznet RuleML rule base:
NBBizKB Rules


Contact: Anna Maclachlan or Harold Boley