- From: Alistair Miles <alimanfoo@googlemail.com>
- Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 12:55:10 +0100
- To: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
- Cc: Bernard Vatant <bernard.vatant@mondeca.com>, Marc Wick <marc@geonames.org>, Dublin Core <DC-ARCHITECTURE@jiscmail.ac.uk>, SKOS <public-esw-thes@w3.org>, Leigh Dodds <leigh.dodds@talis.com>, Libby Miller <Libby.Miller@bbc.co.uk>
FWIW, I know jon phipps created a status vocabulary which is used internally in metadataregistry.org, see: http://metadataregistry.org/concept/list/vocabulary_id/31.html Maybe not what you're after, but I thought I'd make the connection. Cheers, Alistair On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 08:47:45PM +0200, Dan Brickley wrote: > +cc: Leigh, Libby > > On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Bernard Vatant > <bernard.vatant@mondeca.com>wrote: > > > Hello folks > > > > We are currently revisiting the Geonames ontology (long overdue) including > > feature codes, on which I would like to add some Dublin-Core like > > annotations re. concepts. In particular some concepts are going to be > > deprecated using dcterms:isReplacedBy, some will be deprecated altogether > > without replace because they've never be used, and quite a lot will be put > > in a status of quasi-obsolescence or quasi-extinction. Those are feature > > codes used less than one per million features, which means less than 7 times > > considering Geonames has over 7 millions features in store ... > > I was wondering which vocabulary is the best for expressing that. > > http://www.w3.org/2003/06/sw-vocab-status/ns is used by FOAF, Bibontology > > and others. But it defines status as a data property, I would prefer an > > object property with an enumerated range of individual values. Of course I > > can define those in geonames data space, but since this is not particular to > > geographical codes, I was wondering if there was some vocabulary on some > > shelves I miss. BTW I was amazed not to find any "status" property in Dublin > > Core. > > > > Yes, that is a limitation of the sw-vocab-status vocab. At the end of last > year I started writing it up towards a W3C Note (after a 'go for it' from > Ivan), with Libby Miller and Leigh Dodds. The effort is a little stalled but > the draft is at http://www.w3.org/2003/06/sw-vocab-status/note.html > > If you think it's worthwhile, we could expand the note to include new more > useful properties. > > Interested to help? :) > > (even encouraging us to put time into this counts as help!) > > Dan > > > > > > Suggestions? > > > > -- > > Bernard Vatant > > Senior Consultant > > Vocabulary & Data Engineering > > Tel: +33 (0) 971 488 459 > > Mail: bernard.vatant@mondeca.com > > ---------------------------------------------------- > > Mondeca > > 3, cité Nollez 75018 Paris France > > Web: http://www.mondeca.com > > Blog: http://mondeca.wordpress.com > > ---------------------------------------------------- > > -- Alistair Miles Centre for Genomics and Global Health <http://cggh.org> The Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics Roosevelt Drive Oxford OX3 7BN United Kingdom Web: http://purl.org/net/aliman Email: alimanfoo@gmail.com Tel: +44 (0)1865 287669
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