RE: Property Guidance

VMF has fees to register terms, but that's because it takes time, tools and talent to do (and curate) the mappings.

Most vocabularies and related tools have cost *someone's* money and other resources to produce, and as for curation...!

It is free to access, however, which is not always the case even with some widely-used vocabularies...(!)

Listpoint looks like a nice platform for doing technical aspects of management but it isn't going to give you reliable, structured semantics in a dependable way.

That requires human intellectual effort at some point, sometimes rather a lot of it, and actually, as I said, compared to the costs of some major (and even some minor) existing standards, the VMF's registration fees are really not that huge.

-----Original Message-----
From: John Erickson [mailto:olyerickson@gmail.com] 
Sent: 26 October 2012 12:50
To: Michael Hopwood
Cc: Leigh Dodds; public-lod community
Subject: Re: Property Guidance

Whoa, haven't thought about VMF for a while...wondering where a fee-based <http://bit.ly/P7SYG0> vocabulary cross-reference like VMF fits. On the one hand, there are Open/Free ways to solve the problem; on the other, cross references like VMF and code lists <c.f.
http://www.listpoint.co.uk/> (which solve a somewhat different problem).

On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 4:57 AM, Michael Hopwood <michael@editeur.org> wrote:
> Hi Leigh,
>
> At the risk of being repetitive, it is another fairly good use case 
> for the VMF architecture: http://www.doi.org/VMF/documents.html
>
> The difference there is that you build consensus with the publisher of 
> the vocabulary/property at the same time as building the equivalence 
> table, and maintain an authoritative version that anyone can refer to.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Michael
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Leigh Dodds <leigh@ldodds.com>
> To: public-lod community <public-lod@w3.org>
> Cc:
> Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2012 9:08 AM
> Subject: Property Guidance
>
> Hi,
>
> I came across a nice report on twitter yesterday (apologies, I can't 
> recall from whom), which provides some guidance on creating Linked 
> Data for Bibliographic Data:
>
> http://aims.fao.org/lode/bd
>
> Specifically it recommends a number of properties and provides 
> guidance on how to select between alternatives. It includes some flow 
> diagrams to help describe the selection -- something I've not seen 
> before and which seems like a nice way to present the options.
>
> Has anyone done this in other circumstances?
>
> As an exercise I drafted a table (available in a Google Spreadsheet
> [1]) to start mapping out some guidance for Equivalence Links [2].
> Does anyone have any comments?
>
> Cheers,
>
> L.
>
> [1]. http://bit.ly/equivalence-links-guide
> [2]. http://patterns.dataincubator.org/book/equivalence-links.html
>
> --
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