- From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:50:00 -0500
- To: Michael Hausenblas <michael.hausenblas@deri.org>
- CC: Linked Data community <public-lod@w3.org>, Semantic Web community <semantic-web@w3.org>
On 1/29/09 1:53 PM, Michael Hausenblas wrote: > Dear LODers, > > We are very pleased to announce the release of voiD [1]. > > voiD (from "Vocabulary of Interlinked Datasets") is an RDF based schema to > describe linked datasets. With voiD the discovery and usage of linked > datasets can be performed both effectively and efficiently. A dataset is a > collection of data, published and maintained by a single provider, available > as RDF, and accessible, for example, through dereferenceable HTTP URIs or a > SPARQL endpoint. > > We ask for comments on both the vocabulary [2] as well as the guide [3] - > this will certainly help to release a second version of voiD in the near > future. When providing feedback, please CC > void-rdfs-internals@googlegroups.com. > > Our thanks go out to some chaps who influenced the design of voiD, provided > use cases and ensured that we would never get bored too quickly (in > alphabetic order): Orri Erling, Hugh Glaser, Olaf Hartig, Tom Heath, Ian > Millard, Marc-Alexandre Nolin, Yves Raimond, Yrjänä Rankka, Francois > Scharffe, Giovanni Tummarello. > > On behalf of the voiD team (Keith, Richard, Jun and /me) > > Cheers, > Michael > > [1] http://semanticweb.org/wiki/VoiD > [2] http://rdfs.org/ns/void > [3] http://rdfs.org/ns/void-guide > > Micheal, Nice! Early demo: http://linkeddata.uriburner.com/about/html/http://twitter.com/kidehen%23Dataset -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen President& CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
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