- From: Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de>
- Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 21:42:55 +0000
- To: Bob Ferris <zazi@elbklang.net>
- Cc: Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>, Linked Data community <public-lod@w3.org>
Bob, On 14 Mar 2011, at 10:47, Bob Ferris wrote: > Am 14.03.2011 11:13, schrieb Richard Cyganiak: >> The abandoned PhD project type of ontology or vocabulary has no community around it. Therefore, one gains very little by re-using it. ... > I can only repeat myself: PhD-project-born ontologies have not to be bad per se, or? Banning them a priori is a rather prejudiced approach in my mind. How did you get from “One gains very little from re-using an abandoned PhD project ontology” to “Ontologies created in PhD projects should be banned”? Best, Richard > When I have to choose an ontology, I try to initially review all available** ontologies independent whether they have their origin in a PhD project or design by a big industry consortium. > Bad design decisions can be made everywhere - in the small-grouped PhD project or that one with a huge industry community behind. I think every ontology has the chance to get somehow famous, or? > The ontology with huge stakeholder community in the background is damned to get popular and the little-sized-project-born ontology has the freedom to get accepted somewhere and somehow. > > Regarding "ontology marking", I especially try to address the following issues: > > - the ontology shall be discoverable, even by fuzzy requests (that is why, the tagging approach that is followed by Schemapedia is a quite good one) and by general purpose search engines alá Google > - the ontology specification shall be provided in as much as possible and appropriated serialization formats, e.g., RDF/N3, XHTML+RDFa, RDF/JSON, RDF/XML > - the ontology shall be published with a good (interlinked) documentation, incl. illustrating examples, graphics of its structure, related ontologies, etc. (ideally everything at least available in XHTML+RDFa) > - the ontology shall be evolvable by a community, incl. issue trackers, mailing lists, etc. > > Cheers, > > > Bob > > > *) No feedback is also a kind of feedback > **) every ontology I can find that might be somehow appropriated to fulfil my addressed purpose somehow >
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