- From: Libby Miller <Libby.Miller@bristol.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 11:27:30 +0000 (GMT)
- To: Liddy Nevile <Liddy.Nevile@motile.net>
- Cc: public-swbp-wg@w3.org
hi all, I'm Libby Miller from the University of Bristol and I hope to be involved in the working group. I work on the SWAD-Europe project[1], an EU funded project with a large component of best-practices type dissemination. I've recently been working on an RDF version of icalendar[2] as part of the RDF calendar taskforce, and also on a combination of existing and new vocabularies used together for an image annotation application[3]. Dan Brickley and I are cocreators of FOAF[4], an RDF vocabulary for describing people - because of this we get a lot of questions on these types of topics. My top 3 are: * sample instance documents showing for example, use of a single vocabulary, use of several vocabularies together. In some cases, advice on creating and using example files for testing a vocabulary may be useful, as in the RDF Calendar work * advice on identification of things, people, events etc: in FOAF we have used owl:inverseFunctionalProperty to do this; many people have an instinct to use uris for these things - clear advice and discussion of the costs and benefits of the different approaches would be very useful to point to. Identifying that two individual things are the same thing in a distributed way is a core part of the 'webbiness' of this type of data. * for newbies: pointers to existing vocabularies, mechanisms for reusing all or part of existing vocabularies with their own vocabulary, and advice about when reusing is a good thing to do. Libby [1] http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/ [2] http://www.w3.org/2002/12/cal/ [3] http://w3photo.org/ [4] http://www.foaf-project.org/, http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/
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