Re: [CFC] Call For Curators for Linked Open Vocabularies (LOV)

If it makes it easier you are welcome to pull metadata from Open
Bio-Ontologies: http://obofoundry.org

The metadata is available in yaml, json-ld and ttl

You might be interested in our lightweight ontology curation system,
complete source is here:
https://github.com/OBOFoundry/OBOFoundry.github.io

Every ontology is maintained as a "frontmatter-ld" file (i.e. markdown with
an embedded YAML section with an externally defined JSON-LD context). It's
all in GitHub, so anyone in the community can make PRs, reducing the burden
on curators/admins who merge the PRs, after travis validation

https://github.com/OBOFoundry/OBOFoundry.github.io/graphs/contributors

hope this helps

On Sun, Jul 14, 2019 at 11:57 PM María Poveda <mpoveda@fi.upm.es> wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
>
> Linked Open Vocabularies (LOV) is a curated ontology index that allows
> searching for ontologies and ontology terms. This portal gathers and makes
> visible indicators such as interconnection between vocabularies, version
> history, use of the vocabulary terms in datasets, etc.
>
> Led by Pierre-Yves Vandenbussche and Bernard Vatant, LOV started in March
> 2011 as part of the DataLift research project [2] being developed and
> launched by Mondeca [3]. It was rapidly seen as a valuable resource for the
> open knowledge and semantic web communities and the Open Knowledge
> Foundation offered its servers and maintenance from July 2012 (thanks to
> Rufus Pollock, Paul Walsh and the OKFN admins) until July 2018, when it
> started being hosted by the Ontology Engineering Group at Universidad
> Politécnica de Madrid.
>
> There is no doubt that LOV has been a success for the ontology engineering
> and semantic web community, as you may know either because you use it on a
> regular basis, contribute to it or have heard about it, or because of the
> more than 22,000 accesses accounted during the last year.
>
> Currently LOV indexes curated metadata from more than 600 ontologies,
> thanks to a community effort supported by a crew of curators contributing
> on a voluntary basis: Bernard Vatant
> <https://lov.linkeddata.es/dataset/lov/agents/Bernard%20Vatant> (former), Pierre-Yves
> Vandenbussche
> <https://lov.linkeddata.es/dataset/lov/agents/Pierre-Yves%20Vandenbussche>,
> Ghislain Atemezing, Alba Fernández Izquierdo
> <https://lov.linkeddata.es/dataset/lov/agents/Alba%20Fern%C3%A1ndez%20Izquierdo>,
> Gabriel Kepeklian, Paola Espinoza Arias and myself.
>
> We would like to keep the system maintained for and by the community, for
> what we are opening the curation process to interested collaborators.
>
> We plan to select a small set of curators to start with and see how the
> curation process works in a more distributed team and which problems we
> encounter during the curation processes, then expanding to a bigger group.
> If you are interested in joining our team of curators, just fill in the
> form http://bit.ly/LOVcurators or reply to this email with your name,
> your organisation, why are you interested in contributing, and your
> experience in ontological engineering and/or ontology curation. Everybody
> is welcome.
>
> Looking forward to your expressions of interest,
>
> María Poveda-Villalón on behalf of the LOV team
>
>
> PS: No need to say that your contributions will be publicly acknowledged
> on the LOV site, although we know that making sure that this community
> effort continues being successful over the next years will be the most
> valuable reward that you will get.
>
> [1] https://lov.linkeddata.es/
>
> [2] https://datalift.org/ontologies/
> [3] https://mondeca.com/
>
>
> --
> María Poveda Villalón, PhD
>
> Ontology Engineering Group (OEG)
> Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
> Madrid, Spain
>
> e-mail: mpoveda@fi.upm.es
> blog: http://thepetiteontologist.wordpress.com/
> tlf: +34 910672889
>