Re: [ANN] DBpedia Archivo - Call to improve the web of ontologies

http://prefix.cc/popular/all is quite a good source of ontologies that 
exist in the wild.

I'm quite pleased and surprised that my 
http://graphite.ecs.soton.ac.uk/xtypes/ make it pretty high up the list.

On 07/12/2020 09:18, Sebastian Hellmann wrote:
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> Dear all,
>
> We are proud to announce DBpedia Archivo (https://archivo.dbpedia.org 
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> an augmented ontology archive and interface to implement FAIRer 
> ontologies. Each ontology is rated with 4 stars measuring basic FAIR 
> features. We discovered 890 ontologies reaching on average 1.95 out of 
> 4 stars. Many of them have no or unclear licenses and have issues 
> w.r.t. retrieval and parsing.
>
>
> # Community action on individual ontologies
>
>
> We would like to call on all ontology maintainers and consumers to 
> help us increase the average star rating of the web of ontologies by 
> fixing and improving its ontologies. You can easily check an ontology 
> at https://archivo.dbpedia.org/info 
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> If you are an ontology maintainer just release a patched version - 
> archivo will automatically pick it up 8 hours later. If you are a user 
> of an ontology and want your consumed data to become FAIRer, please 
> inform the ontology maintainer about the issues found with Archivo.
>
>
> The star rating is very basic and only requires fixing small things. 
> However, theimpact on technical and legal usability can be immense.
>
>
> # Community action on all ontologies (quality, FAIRness, conformity)
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>
> Archivo is extensible and allows contributions to give consumers a 
> central place to encode their requirements. We envision fostering 
> adherence to standards and strengthening incentives for publishers to 
> build a better (FAIRer) web of ontologies.
>
>
> 1.
>
>     SHACL (https://www.w3.org/TR/shacl/
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>     co-edited by DBpedia’s CTO D. Kontokostas) enables easy testing of
>     ontologies. Archivo offers free SHACL continuous integration
>     testing for ontologies. Anyone can implement their SHACL tests and
>     add them to the SHACL library on Github. We believe that there are
>     many synergies, i.e. SHACL tests for your ontology are helpful for
>     others as well.
>
> 2.
>
>     We are looking for ontology experts to join DBpedia and discuss
>     further validation (e.g. stars) to increase FAIRness and quality
>     of ontologies. We are forming a steering committee and also a PC
>     for the upcoming Vocarnival at SEMANTiCS 2021. Please message
>     hellmann@informatik.uni-leipzig.de
>     <mailto:hellmann@informatik.uni-leipzig.de>if you would like to
>     join. We would like to extend the Archivo platform with relevant
>     visualisations, tests, editing aides, mapping management tools and
>     quality checks.
>
>
> # How does Archivo work?
>
>
> Each week Archivo runs several discovery algorithms to scan for new 
> ontologies. Once discovered Archivo checks them every 8 hours. When 
> changes are detected, Archivo downloads and rates and archives the 
> latest snapshot persistently on the DBpedia Databus.
>
>
> # Archivo's mission
>
>
> Archivo's mission is to improve FAIRness (findability, accessibility, 
> interoperability, and reusability) of all available ontologies on the 
> Semantic Web. Archivo is not a guideline, it is fully automated, 
> machine-readable and enforces interoperability with its star rating.
>
>
> - Ontology developers can implement against Archivo until they reach 
> more stars. The stars and tests are designed to guarantee the 
> interoperability and fitness of the ontology.
>
> - Ontology users can better find, access and re-use ontologies. 
> Snapshots are persisted in case the original is not reachable anymore 
> adding a layer of reliability to the decentral web of ontologies.
>
>
> Let’s all join together to make the web of ontologies more reliable 
> and stable,
>
>
> Johannes Frey, Denis Streitmatter, Fabian Götz, Sebastian Hellmann and 
> Natanael Arndt
>
> Paper: https://svn.aksw.org/papers/2020/semantics_archivo/public.pdf 
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