- From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 12:32:20 -0500
- To: Raúl García Castro <rgarcia@fi.upm.es>
- CC: public-lod@w3.org
On 1/21/11 12:25 PM, Raúl García Castro wrote: > 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. :) Okay :-) Kingsley > > 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/ > -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen President& CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen Twitter/Identi.ca: kidehen
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