Re: data format for gathered information

On 27/02/07, Leo Sauermann <leo.sauermann@dfki.de> wrote:

>  Es begab sich aber da Danny Ayers zur rechten Zeit 22.02.2007 20:25
> folgendes schrieb:
>
>  Quick thoughts: I see the motivation re. reuse, but rather than trying
>  to use solely RSS 1.0 for the items, it might be better to use more
>  precise terms where they exist, as_well_as the RSS terms, e.g.
>
>  <http://example.org/doc> a rss:item; a foaf:Document .
>  I also thought about this, but if you require from all participants to do
> that, it sucks.
>  Why should anyone annotate two types if one is enough? This is the format
> we expect external data to be in,
>  inference should add the additional triples.

I wasn't really expecting the "external" participants to be providing
the data in RDF/XML.

>  For the taxo stuff, SKOS sounds a very good idea generally, though I
>  wouldn't be surprised if there were existing vocabs that could be used
>  for things like "tutorial" etc.
>  I'll cc Ian, he hangs around libraries...
>
>  It might also be worth considering (perhaps redundantly again) the Tag
>  Ontology at
>  http://www.holygoat.co.uk/projects/tags/
>  SKOS covers this and more, so would rather use skos.

That ontology uses SKOS to define the concepts associated with
folksonomy tags, I thought they might be useful in this context.

Cheers,
Danny.

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