Re: ontology of (open source) licenses?

Hi,

On 18 Aug 2009, at 18:38, John Graybeal wrote:

> (Sorry, I sent this Aug 13 right after I changed my subscribed  
> email, and I can't verify it went through. Trying again.)
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> Does anyone know of a good ontology, umm, highly structured  
> vocabulary in RDF or OWL, of open source licenses?  Ideally it would  
> be reasonably complete; not so critical that it be ontologically rich.
>

DOAP defines a property to link projects to their license [1]
A good idea could be to use DBPedia URIs for the licenses themselves,  
e.g. [2]
You can then use the relationships provided by DBPedia to identify  
that's an open-source license, see [3]

HTH,

Alex.

[1] http://usefulinc.com/ns/doap
[2] http://dbpedia.org/resource/GNU_General_Public_License
[3] http://dbpedia.org/class/yago/OpenSourceLicenses

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Dr. Alexandre Passant
Digital Enterprise Research Institute
National University of Ireland, Galway
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Received on Thursday, 20 August 2009 16:06:20 UTC