Re: The SSN requirement 'Reference external vocabularies'

On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 12:20 PM, Jon Blower <j.d.blower@reading.ac.uk> wrote:
> when users come along and get told to ‘use something convenient here’ or
> ‘use whatever you like’, they understandably get frustrated. So the
> challenge for SDWWG – particularly in the Best Practices space – is the
> extent to which we want to tie down or fill in some of the stubs.
>
>
> Agreed, I think this is absolutely key. The Linked Data idea of “small
> pieces loosely coupled” is all very well, but at the moment (from the user
> point of view) it seems like “small pieces widely scattered”.
>
> If we can agree on the “best” (or at least good-quality) vocabularies and
> ontologies to adopt for specific purposes it would be a big step forward.

+1. This is indeed what our BPs should do.

Andrea

Received on Thursday, 8 October 2015 11:47:30 UTC