Re: [Linking-open-data] [ANN] MOAT

Danny Ayers wrote:
>> On Saturday 19 January 2008 2:25, Alexandre Passant wrote:
>>     
>
> Hi Alexandre,
>
> Looking good! Nice to see the tie-in to the Tag Ontology etc.
>
> I'm not sure, there may be another opportunity for interop with SKOS.
>
> This:
>
> <moat:Meaning>
>    <moat:meaningURI rdf:resource="http://sws.geonames.org/2988507/"/>
>
> seems conceptually (!) pretty close to:
>
> <skos:Concept rdf:about="http://sws.geonames.org/2988507/">
>
> Though I'm not sure what the mapping would look like, given the extra
> indirection (note that moat:meaningURI is defined as a
> DatatypeProperty in the ont, but appears as an ObjectProperty in the
> example).
>
> Cheers,
> Danny.
>
>   
Alexandre,

Nice stuff!

+1 for Danny's comments re. SKOS.  We enhance the Linked Data Web when 
we use terms from existing vocabularies (as you know anyhow).


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