Re: Incubate best practices

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Karen Coyle <kcoyle@kcoyle.net> wrote:
> Can you say a little more about what you mean by "vocabulary usage"?

In the context of library-linked-data by 'vocabulary usage' I guess I
just meant using an RDF vocabulary to describe library resources. By
'guiding principles' I was thinking of stuff like:

- how does a vocabularies authority factor into use?
- when do you reuse a vocabulary?
- when do you extend a vocabulary?
- when do you create a new vocabulary?
- is it ok to select terms from multiple vocabularies?
- what's the best way to document the use of multiple vocabularies?
- how should you connect your vocabulary to other vocabularies?
- when should you use RDFS?
- when should you use OWL?
- how do you put labels on resources?
- what are the pros & cons of literals/resources as objects in a
triple (strings vs things)?
- when/how should you connect your resources to other linked data resources?
- at what granularity should we model things: e.g. records for People vs People?
- how important is an understanding of httpRange-14?
- should we consider formats like atom and json with typed links
between web resources to be linked data?

Maybe this is asking too much--but I think that unless we have some
consensus about these sorts of things, choosing what vocabularies to
document as best practice will be difficult.

//Ed

Received on Wednesday, 16 June 2010 01:32:37 UTC