Re: [SKOS] W3C being unfair to SKOS?

Hi Ivan,

Apparently it's ok, you can have a look at 
http://stitch.cs.vu.nl/vocabularies/rameau/ark:/12148/cb11932889r
(at least SKOS is now handled the same way as the others ;-)

Thanks a lot to the designer and Marie-Claire!

Cheers,

Antoine


> Antoine,
> 
> our designer has sent us (via Marie-Claire) a new series with the right
> sizes. I have generated the PNG, GIF, and SVG versions.
> 
> Can you check whether they are o.k. now?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Ivan
> 
> Antoine Isaac wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> If you look at
>> http://stitch.cs.vu.nl/vocabularies/rameau/ark:/12148/cb119461352
>> you'll see that we've tried to use the SKOS technology button provided
>> by W3C.
>>
>> But unless we've done something really subtle with our HTML, it seems
>> that it has been designed to be displayed *at a lower level than the
>> other buttons*.
>> Is there discrimination? ;-)
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Antoine
>>
>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> I'd like to announce the release an *experimental* service [1] that
>>> provides the RAMEAU subject headings as open linked data.
>>> Rameau [2] is the main subject vocabulary used at the French national
>>> library (BnF) and many other French institutions. This site, a result
>>> of the TELplus project, and a collaboration between the Vrije
>>> Universiteit Amsterdam and BnF, aims at encouraging experimentation
>>> with Rameau on the web of data.
>>>
>>> RDF/SKOS Data:
>>> RAMEAU Concepts are described here according to the SKOS model [3] to
>>> represent knowledge organization systems in RDF. Each concept comes
>>> with labelling information but also semantic relations to other
>>> concepts and various kind of notes. Concepts have URIs of the form
>>> http://stitch.cs.vu.nl/vocabularies/rameau/ark:/12148/cb11932889r.
>>>
>>> RDF/HTML content negociation:
>>> This service follows the Best Practice Recipes for Publishing RDF
>>> Vocabularies [4]. Depending a web agent's preference, it can serve
>>> RDF/XML or HTML descriptions of concepts--note that the HTML pages
>>> contain RDFa markup.
>>>
>>> Semantic alignment to LCSH:
>>> Many concepts served here are semantically connected to the Library of
>>> Congress Subject Headings linked data (soon to be) available at
>>> http://id.loc.gov. This is done using 60,000 manual mappings provided
>>> by the MACS project [5]. Thanks to them, you will be able to "follow
>>> your nose" between one vocabulary and the other.
>>>
>>> Metrics:
>>> The RAMEAU version served here contains 157,280 concepts, of which
>>> 96,825 correspond to common nouns and 51,646 to geographic names.
>>>
>>>
>>> Comments are highly welcome, either by personal mail, or via the LOD
>>> and SWD mailing lists. This is an experimental prototype, and any
>>> feedback--even positive!--could be useful to implement a more robust
>>> version of it in the future!
>>>
>>> For more information, please visit [1] or contact aisaac at few.vu.nl.
>>> Thanks a lot for your attention,
>>>
>>> Antoine
>>> [1] http://stitch.cs.vu.nl/rameau
>>> [2] http://rameau.bnf.fr
>>> [3] http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos
>>> [4] http://www.w3.org/TR/swbp-vocab-pub
>>> [5] http://macs.cenl.org
>>>
>>> ----
>>> Antoine Isaac
>>> Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
>>> Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague
>>> Homepage: http://www.few.vu.nl/~aisaac
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>

Received on Monday, 27 April 2009 09:30:15 UTC