Re: a new spin on contexts -- do they really help with vocabulary mapping?

On 25 Apr 2012, at 03:27, Sandro Hawke wrote:
> I think people should publish various shims, for various
> purposes.   The shims are web documents which say how to map from data
> in one vocabulary to data with a similar meaning in another vocabulary.
> I'm not sure how much they should be OWL vs RIF vs Javascript (using
> some convention not-yet-determined).    I think the shims will have to
> be labeled in ways that help people, and sometimes machines, figure out
> which ones are best for their purposes and understand in what ways they
> are wrong/broken.  Maybe Bob writes one that allows him to use Alice's
> data, then publishes it for others to use under similar circumstances.

+1

Richard

Received on Wednesday, 25 April 2012 14:42:26 UTC