Re: Terminology

Antoine thanks, that's helpful :-)
And yes, I appreciate that the topic is quite complex. I am fully aware 
of that. This is why I am asking all these stupid questions, and why I'm 
trying to simplify things ;-)

Lukas

On 28-4-2011 10:23, Antoine Isaac wrote:
> Hi Lukas,
>
>
>>> Interesting subject. I agree with Ed that organisations should try
>>> and use existing vocabularies & ontologies (by the way, can someone
>>> explain the difference if there is any? thanks) first.
>>
>> Vocabularies is used both for value vocabularies (the right-hand
>> "object" side of the triple) and for ontologies (the middle
>> "predicate"), so it is confusing. I try to say "value vocabularies"
>> for the former, but it's convenient to use "vocabularies" when you
>> mean both, thus continuing the general confusion :-)
>
>
>
> In fact there's even a small piece of text which elaborates on our
> choices:
> http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/wiki/Library_terminology_informally_explained#Definitions
>
> Please bear with us, the topic is quite complex, and we had to make some
> choices...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Antoine
>

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