Re: RDF vocabulary for describing news?

On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Bob DuCharme <bob@snee.com> wrote:

>  The NewsML XML standard declares namespaces for the properties described
> by its elements and attributes, and it's a pretty mature standard with input
> from a lot of people in the industry, so that could be a good place to
> start. You could find some NewsML mailing list to see if anyone there had
> thought about an RDF ontology, and if not you could use the namespaces and
> terms in their XML schema as the basis for one.
>

Thanks Bob, I will definitely keep this reference in mind if I can't get
hold of an existing news ontology.

Steph.


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> Bob
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> On 11/12/2010 1:09 AM, Stéphane Corlosquet wrote:
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> What do people use to describe news articles in RDF? I'm pretty much all
> set when it comes to properties for describing news metadata, but what I
> find lacking is a class for news article. RSS has become too vague for this
> purpose. I found http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/ontology/news.owl#News but
> according to Sindice, it's not used anywhere except on  ebiquity.umbc.edu.
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>  Steph.
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