- From: Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:49:51 +0100
- To: Bob Wyman <bob@wyman.us>
- Cc: public-lod@w3.org
Bob, If you have a complex dataset in an area with well-established metadata conventions (e.g. bibliographic information datasets), then it's usually easy to re-use existing vocabularies. Outside of these areas, if there are no widely accepted standards, then it's quite often necessary to roll your own. That's often easier than cobbling together a solution from ill-fitting bits and pieces. You can add mappings to other vocabularies later, based on community feedback. That being said: For addresses there's an RDF version of vCard: http://norman.walsh.name/2005/12/05/vcard For people, obviously there's FOAF: http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1 All the best, Richard On 27 Jun 2008, at 00:19, Bob Wyman wrote: > I would like to make available as Linked Data several databases > describing several million non-profits, NGO's and foundations. The > data includes things like name of organization, address, budget, > source of funds, major programs, key personnel, relationships to > other organizations, area of expertise, etc. > > What I don't have is an RDF vocabulary with which to describe these > things. While I could define one myself, I would like to base my > work on existing standards," or common practice, however, seemingly > endless digging through the web indicates that there aren't any > obvious "standards" for describing even basic things like address in > RDF. Perhaps, I'm looking in the wrong places... > > Ideally, I would find some well formed vocabulary for a "Business > Description" that I could use or adapt. I would appreciate it if > anyone could give me pointers to either such a well worked > vocabulary or at least to smaller vocabularies for things like > address that I could use in composing a vocabulary with which to > publish this data. Can you help? > > bob wyman >
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