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

Hello Chris,

    thank you very much for the pointers, there are definitely a lot of
interesting things there. We are working in similar approaches, not really
for LOV (which is the origin of this thread) but for generating ontology
portals for organizations (e.g: http://vocab.linkeddata.es/ or
http://vicinity.iot.linkeddata.es or http://smartcity.linkeddata.es/).

I'll keep my eyes peeled for updates in your project.

Best,

María

On Sun, Aug 4, 2019 at 3:39 AM Chris Mungall <cjmungall@lbl.gov> wrote:

> 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
>>
>

-- 
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