- From: Raphaël Troncy <raphael.troncy@eurecom.fr>
- Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2017 22:15:09 +0100
- To: Maxime Lefrançois <maxime.lefrancois@emse.fr>, SDW WG Public List <public-sdw-wg@w3.org>
Hello, > These best practices encourage among other to use vocabularies vann and > voaf. We are not talking about "importing" those vocabularies but to re-use some terms (properties to be more explicit) defined in those vocabularies in order to add useful metadata on the ontology and enable the ontology to be discoverable. This is a de-facto good practice that is being more and more embraced. >> I would strongly suggest not to flood the users with all those different vocabularies such as >> vann and voaf. Many companies and government agencies cannot use products that include >> parts that are not standardized or for which there is no clear (commercial) partner. A company >> (or government agency) that wants to use our ontologies will have to learn and understand all >> these other vocabularies and be able to offer support for them for 20+ years and they are not >> going to do so. Keep in mind that what we are doing here is not a research project. I'm not sure which industry and/or large government agencies you're representing or with whom you had this experience. My experience is different: for example, the largest government agencies in France (INSEE for the national statistical institutes, IGN for the national geographic institute, DILA for the administrative documentation) or in Europe (e.g. the legislation department having worked with the ELI ontology, also translated into a schema.org extension) have all embraced those vocabularies (vann and voaf) to make their vocabularies discoverable. They didn't express the concerns you're sharing. I'm also working with medium size industry who never voice those concerns. Mondeca, which worked for numerous clients since many years, might have more experience to share. Can you please detail who are those industry and government agencies who have expressed concerns and what those concerns were precisely? Best regards. Raphaël -- Raphaël Troncy EURECOM, Campus SophiaTech Data Science Department 450 route des Chappes, 06410 Biot, France. e-mail: raphael.troncy@eurecom.fr & raphael.troncy@gmail.com Tel: +33 (0)4 - 9300 8242 Fax: +33 (0)4 - 9000 8200 Web: http://www.eurecom.fr/~troncy/
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