Re: Wiki-based vocabulary website idea

Manu,

I absolutely support your principle idea re vocabulary management. There is
indeed a need for people to find, share, and create vocabularies. However,
please let us not reinvent the wheel here or even worse creating an
RDFa-specific solution, as this is a general RDF issue.

As already many people (incl. me ;) have put considerable time and thoughts
into this issue, please consider reviewing the following resources, projects
and efforts before you continue:

+ VoCamps [1], BarCamp-like meet-up for creating and extending vocabularies;
+ Knoodl [2], a community-oriented vocabulary and knowledge-bases editing
environment with Wikis;
+ OpenVocab [3], a lightweight, community-driven Web-site for maintaining
terms (classes and properties);
+ Neologism [4], a Drupal-based RDF-Schema editor;
+ Vocabify, [5], a tool allowing to lift RDF schemas from instance data;

Cheers,
      Michael

[1] http://vocamp.org/wiki/Main_Page
[2] Knoodl, http://www.knoodl.com/
[3] OpenVocab, http://open.vocab.org/
[4] Neologism, http://neologism.deri.ie/
[5] Vocabify, http://kwijibo.talis.com/vocabify/

-- 
Dr. Michael Hausenblas
DERI - Digital Enterprise Research Institute
National University of Ireland, Lower Dangan,
Galway, Ireland, Europe
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> From: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
> Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 18:32:48 -0400
> To: RDFa TF list <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>, Public RDFa
> <public-rdfa@w3.org>
> Subject: Wiki-based vocabulary website idea
> Resent-From: Public RDFa <public-rdfa@w3.org>
> Resent-Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 22:33:30 +0000
> 
> Some of the outstanding projects this community might want to focus on
> has been added to the "Contribute" section on the "Participate" RDFa
> wiki page. Please add to the list if you can think of any more:
> 
> http://rdfa.info/wiki/Participate#Contribute
> 
> One of the projects that has been rattling around in the back of my head
> for over 2 years now and I just haven't found the time to work on it.
> Putting this out there in case anybody else has been thinking along the
> same lines and has some free time to implement.
> 
> The concept is basically a wiki-based vocabulary design website that
> would help web designers create, correct, collaborate on, publish and
> mirror RDF(a) vocabularies:
> 
> http://rdfa.info/wiki/wiki-based-vocabulary-website
> 
> Please add your thoughts/clarifications/issues to the page (or the
> mailing list).
> 
> -- manu
> 
> -- 
> Manu Sporny
> President/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc.
> blog: A Collaborative Distribution Model for Music
> http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2009/04/04/collaborative-music-model/
> 
>

Received on Monday, 18 May 2009 05:37:20 UTC