- From: Raúl García Castro <rgarcia@fi.upm.es>
- Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 18:25:41 +0100
- To: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- CC: public-lod@w3.org
El 21/01/11 15:54, Kingsley Idehen escribió: > On 1/21/11 9:40 AM, Raúl García Castro wrote: >> Dear Bernard, >> >> In the SemsorGrid4Env European project [4] we are working with the >> SWEET v2.0 ontologies in order to reuse some general terms in our >> flood management use case. >> >> You are correct in saying that the documentation and metadata provided >> by these ontologies could be better. And this would also extend their >> use. >> >> You can take a look at the ontologies that we have developed at [5]. >> >> Kind regards, >> >> [4] http://www.semsorgrid4env.eu/ >> [5] http://www.semsorgrid4env.eu/index.php/ontologies > > Yes, but do you have any live accessible data? That's the crux of the > matter re. VOAF. Basically, is there publicly accessible Linked Data > based on this ontology from your project? Dear Kingsley, Right now we are working on publishing the data that we are managing in the project as linked data; give us a couple of months. :) Kind regards, >>> Hello all >>> >>> Gathering vocabularies for the growing VOAF dataset [1] leads to the >>> discovery of a bunch of linking and resusing good practice (good news) >>> but also makes obvious in comparison some data islands, apparently >>> isolated from everyything else whatsoever in the Cloud. >>> >>> The SWEET ontologies developed by NASA [2] [3] seem to be in that case. >>> We have there a set of about 200 interlinked ontologies for Earth and >>> Environment sciences, but neither relying on any external namespace, nor >>> bearing any kind of metadata (creator, date, publisher, rights ...) to >>> which we are used in "friendly" vocabularies. SWEET ontologies don't >>> seem used in any VOAF vocabulary or CKAN package I've met so far. And >>> the homepage has not even a contact email to cc this message :( >>> >>> I've heard that NASA uses those ontologies internally, but could not >>> find any pointer to that kind of use. >>> >>> This is really a sad observation given the size of the work and the >>> reliable organization backing up this effort, those ontologies should be >>> linked to and from many other vocabularies! >>> >>> So, if anyone has used one of SWEET vocabularies in a dataset or extend >>> it in some vocabulary, please send pointers! >>> And if someone behind SWEET ontologies is lurking on this list, I would >>> be happy to make contact :) >>> >>> Bernard >>> >>> [1] http://www.mondeca.com/foaf/voaf-vocabs.rdf >>> [2] http://sweet.jpl.nasa.gov/ >>> [3] http://sweet.jpl.nasa.gov/2.1/ -- Dr. Raúl García Castro http://delicias.dia.fi.upm.es/~rgarcia/ Ontology Engineering Group Dpto. de Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos e Ingeniería de Software Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Campus de Montegancedo, s/n - Boadilla del Monte - 28660 Madrid Phone: +34 91 336 36 70 - Fax: +34 91 352 48 19
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