Re: Press.net News Ontology

On 9/8/11 11:45 AM, Stéphane Corlosquet wrote:
> Hi Jarred,
>
> It seems to me that your work is similar or at least related to rNews 
> [1]. I'm curious to know if you're looked at rNews when building the 
> News Ontology. Do they complement each other, or are we re-inventing 
> the wheel?
>
> Steph.
>
> [1] http://dev.iptc.org/rNews

Steph,

Can one truly reinvent the wheel in a world of self describing linked 
data, at InterWeb scale? If need be, the vocabularies can be cross 
linked :-)

Kingsley


>
> On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Jarred McGinnis 
> <jarred.mcginnis@pressassociation.com 
> <mailto:jarred.mcginnis@pressassociation.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hello all,
>
>     The Press Association has just published our first draft of a
>     'news' ontology (_http://data.press.net/ontology_). For each of
>     the ontologies documented, we've included the motivation for the
>     ontologies as well as some of the design decisions behind it.
>     Also, you can get the rdf or ttl by adding the extension. For
>     example, http://data.press.net/ontology/asset.rdf
>     <http://data.press.net/ontology/asset.rdf>gives you the ontology
>     described at http://data.press.net/ontology/asset/ ...
>
>     Have a look at the ontology and tell us what you think. We think
>     it is pretty good but feel free to point out our mistakes. We will
>     fix it. Ask why we did it one way and not another. We will give
>     you an answer.
>
>     Paul Wilton of Ontoba has been working with us at the PA and has
>     spelled out a lot of the guiding principles of this work at
>     http://www.ontoba.com/blog.
>
>     The reasons behind this work were talked about at SemTech 2011 San
>     Fransisco:
>     http://semtech2011.semanticweb.com/sessionPop.cfm?confid=62&proposalid=4134
>     <http://semtech2011.semanticweb.com/sessionPop.cfm?confid=62&proposalid=4134>
>
>     Looking forward to hearing from you,
>
>     *Jarred McGinnis, PhD*
>
>     *Research Manager, Semantic Technologies*
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