Publish RDF metadata of Maven Central

[vorburger]

Once a couple of more things I am hoping to get to one day come together around #726 (incl. e.g. #1069 and #1071 first),

I then probably could relatively easily (even regularly) publish an index of Maven Central in RDF, as 🐢 Turtle, and/or JSON-LD, etc. on some place.

Am wondering if this would interest anyone, and what it could be good for. You could then e.g. query Maven Central with SPARQL.

@cstamas or @edewit or @lbovet thoughts & feedback welcome!

[cstamas]

@jvanzyl

[cstamas]

Btw, Google does have a complete mirror of central:
https://storage-download.googleapis.com/maven-central/index.html

Maybe you can access it somehow?

[cstamas]

We had some experiments with RDF in early 2010s for Central, but it did not prove quite sustainable....

[lbovet]

I had also some while ago a similar ambition just crawling local m2 repo: https://github.com/lbovet/graven/blob/master/index.js

Crawling the source repos is one thing but there is also some conceptual work, e.g. differentiate optional dependencies and also figure out if we want superpoms and boms to be in the graphs or only the effective dependencies between artifacts. would it be part of a "software module ontology".