BP - BP14 reuse vocabularies

Hi everyone,

I have noticed that someone has edited the section on data vocabularies:http://w3c.github.io/dwbp/bp.html#dataVocabularies

I could not follow who edited the updates, so I'm sending to everyone...

First reaction: it's great, because now clearly some BPs that were once questioned by the editors of the document, are not questionable any more, I think! Especially BP 14: Reuse vocabularies.

I've got a couple of remarks on this one though:

1. The following criteria are present
[
Activity and maintenance: the vocabulary should be actively maintained, and offer a clear policy to collect feedback and perform updates.
Quality of publication: the vocabularies must have an associated sufficient documentation to be able to interpret the meaning of the concepts defined therein in a unambiguous way. In addition, vocabularies that are designed and published under the Linked Data paradigm will offer enhanced reusability.
]
It strikes me that these are actually the previous BPs that we recommend: 11, 12, 13. Could we make this explicit, rather than re-define the BPs?
(it actually would make a lot sense for a BP which is about avoiding to re-define stuff ;-) )


2. The "how to test" part lists repositories and search tools that seem to be dead (vocab.org), of uncertain status (TONES) or just not repositories at all (Wordnet).
Actually the BP section has a section "How to find vocabularies ?" which has many of the links, and only the ones that work. We could just refer to it from the BP, or just fold the sub-section into BP 14.

Also, I'd recommend to remove GeoNames from the BP; it's arguable whether it's a vocabulary. And someone is very unlikely to embark on re-defining GeoNames. The link to the eGov Core voc
https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/core_vocabularies/description
doesn't work.

Best regards,

Antoine

Received on Wednesday, 21 January 2015 23:04:15 UTC