Re: LOV - Linked Open Vocabularies

On 3/30/11 10:47 PM, Michael F Uschold wrote:
> A step in the right direction. I look forward to the day when we move 
> beyond vocabularies and have linked open ontologies.

Michael,

How and why do you conclude that we haven't reached said date? :-)

Kingsley
>
> Michael
>
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 7:39 AM, Pierre-Yves Vandenbussche 
> <pierre-yves.vandenbussche@mondeca.com 
> <mailto:pierre-yves.vandenbussche@mondeca.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hello all,
>
>     We are pleased to announce the Linked Open Vocabularies initiative
>     [1].
>
>     The web of data is based on datasets
>     publication. When building a dataset some questions arise: which
>     existing vocabularies will be the best-suited for my needs? To
>     facilitate this task we propose the Linked Open Vocabularies
>     (LOV)  dataset [1]. It identifies the defined vocabularies for
>     data description but also the relationships between these
>     vocabularies.
>     The work within the LOV is not exhaustive but, by suggesting us
>     some vocabulary modifications and/or creations, we could improve
>     this dataset.
>     You could access this dataset via an RDF/XML file [2] and via a
>     SPARQL Endpoint [3].
>
>     [1] http://labs.mondeca.com/dataset/lov/index.html
>     [2] http://labs.mondeca.com/dataset/lov/lov.rdf
>     [3] http://labs.mondeca.com/endpoint/lov
>
>     Pierre-Yves Vandenbussche, Bernard Vatant, Lise Rozat
>     Research & Development
>     Mondeca
>     3, cité Nollez 75018 Paris France
>     Website: www.mondeca.com <http://www.mondeca.com/>
>     Lab: Mondeca Labs <http://labs.mondeca.com/>
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Michael Uschold, PhD
>    Senior Ontology Consultant, Semantic Arts
>    LinkedIn: http://tr.im/limfu
>    Skype, Twitter: UscholdM
>


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