- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 03:53:54 -0500 (EST)
- To: Victor Lindesay <victor@schemaweb.info>
- Cc: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Victor Lindesay wrote: >Chaals again: >> seriously, there are lists of vocabularies around, but it is >> known that a lot >> of vocabularies are creaeted by people without ever being so >> much as a schema >> labelling terms in the vocabulary - let alone listed anywhere. > >? Sorry, this was a bit cryptic. People often use terms as a vocabulary, without really defining the vocabulary anywhere. I did it most recently in http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/200305/axforms/earlinst.rdf where I use a vocabulary for describing the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Although there is no schema for that vocabulary, I can explain how it works, what the terms are, and could write a schema for it. Other people copy terms out of this vocabulary, since they think they understand what it means (further evidence that it is at least comprehensible :-). I'm pretty sure other people have examples of this too. The point is that these things can get quite a lot of use before anyone notices that there isn't a schema, but it is very difficult for them to get listed in directories like SchemaWeb. Cheers Chaals
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