Applying SKOS Concept Schemes
Lightweight Blog Category Schemes One place where you can imagine this being useful is in the categorization of blogs and blog entries. It would be great to categorize your own blogs and entries topically in a lightweight, but formal way. People tend to use simple tags at the moment, but tags alone are insufficient. As easy as the folksonomic approach is, it is too hard to link across blogs and reuse the topics when they are unbound. Publishers typically indicate lists of bloggers they like to read on their sites. Some notable bloggers have already started to do this kind of SKOS-based categorization. <rdf:Description rdf:about=" rdf:resource=" specialization of rdfs:Class used for topics. All of the concrete topics are considered instances of this class. Finally, all the major topics are wrapped up into a concept scheme called "Everything:"
SIOC Core Ontology Specification
25 March 2010 This version: Latest version: Last update: Date: 2010/03/25 09:09:09 Revision: Revision: 1.35 Editors: Uldis Bojārs - DERI, NUI Galway John G. Authors: Diego Berrueta - Fundación CTIC Dan Brickley - Asemantics S.R.L. Stefan Decker - DERI, NUI Galway Sergio Fernández - Fundación CTIC Christoph Görn Andreas Harth - DERI, NUI Galway Tom Heath Kingsley Idehen - OpenLink Software Inc. Kjetil Kjernsmo - Opera Software Alistair Miles - STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Alexandre Passant - LaLIC at Université Paris-Sorbonne Axel Polleres - DERI, NUI Galway Luis Polo - Fundación CTIC Contributors: See acknowledgements. Copyright © 2004-2010 by DERI, NUI Galway. Development of SIOC has been supported by Science Foundation Ireland under grant numbers SFI/02/CE1/I131 and SFI/08/CE/I1380. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Regarding underlying technology, SIOC relies heavily on W3C's RDF technology, an open Web standard that can be freely used by anyone. Abstract
WebGUI And The Semantic Web
BIO: A vocabulary for biographical information
Creators David Galbraith This document describes a vocabulary for describing biographical information about people, both living and dead. The BIO vocabulary contains terms useful for finding out more about people and their backgrounds and has some cross-over into genealogical information. The approach taken is to describe a person's life as a series of interconnected key events, around which other information can be woven. The BIO vocabulary defines a number of core classes and properties for describing biographical information: Figure: Biography Vocabulary Core Classes (PNG version, SVG version) At its heart the BIO vocabulary is concerned with people, their relationships and the events in their lives. The sequence of events and intervals build a timeline of history against which people and their relationships can be placed. Figure: Biography Vocabulary Timelines(PNG version, SVG version) Please see for the master version of this vocabulary. History Namespace
An organization ontology
Last update: First released: Revision: Revision: 0.4 Editors: Dave Reynolds (Epimorphics Ltd) Copyright © 2010 Epimorphics Ltd This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Abstract This document describes a core ontology for organizational structures, aimed at supporting linked-data publishing of organizational information across a number of domains. Status of this document This is an editor's draft without any formal standing. Changes to the ontology will be announced on the public-lod mail list. Table of Contents 1. This ontology was original motivated by a need to publish information relating to government organizational structure as part of the data.gov.uk initiative. The ontology gives minimal basic terms to support representation of: This coverage corresponds to the type of information typically found in organizational charts. The ontology does not provide category structures for organization type, organization purpose or roles. Overview of ontology Namespace Design notes 2. 3. 4. 5.
Introducing FOAF | FOAF project
Introducing FOAF This is the original introduction to the FOAF linked information system, written for the RDFWeb project early in 2000. A lot has changed since then, but this text is kept largely intact. Contents What is FOAF? The basic idea behind FOAF is simple: the Web is all about making connections between things. Thousands of people already do this on the Web by describing themselves and their lives on their home page. An example FOAF is best explained with an example. Here's an example, a fragment from the mostly-fictional FOAF database. Dan lives in Zetland road, Bristol, UK with Libby and Craig. This kind of information is the sort of thing typically found on Web home pages. Goals We want a better way of keeping track of the scattered fragments of data currently represented in the Web. FOAF, if successful, should help the Web do the sorts of things that are currently the proprietary offering of centralised services. RDF seems to offer a lot of promise in this area. FOAF for Users
RELATIONSHIP: A vocabulary for describing relationships between people
Creators Eric Vitiello Jr A vocabulary for describing relationships between people Please direct feedback on this document to the FOAF-DEV mailing list History 2004-02-11 - first issued2005-08-10 - editorial change by Ian Davis: Added isDefinedBy properties and updated documentation2009-05-15 - semantic change by Ian Davis: Typed vocabulary as owl:Ontology2010-02-09 - semantic change by Ian Davis: Asserted that foaf:knows is rdfs:subPropertyOf rel:knowsOf2010-02-09 - semantic change by Ian Davis: Incorporated changes suggested by Henry Story on foaf-dev list2010-04-19 - editorial change by Ian Davis: Inlined the examples that had been orphaned by publishing software changes Namespace The URI for this vocabulary is When abbreviating terms the suggested prefix is rel Each class or property in the vocabulary has a URI constructed by appending a term name to the vocabulary URI. Term Summary Properties and Classes Status
BIO: A vocabulary for biographical information
Creators David Galbraith This document describes a vocabulary for describing biographical information about people, both living and dead. The BIO vocabulary contains terms useful for finding out more about people and their backgrounds and has some cross-over into genealogical information. The BIO vocabulary defines a number of core classes and properties for describing biographical information: Figure: Biography Vocabulary Core Classes (PNG version, SVG version) At its heart the BIO vocabulary is concerned with people, their relationships and the events in their lives. The sequence of events and intervals build a timeline of history against which people and their relationships can be placed. Figure: Biography Vocabulary Timelines(PNG version, SVG version) Please see for the master version of this vocabulary. Please direct feedback on this document to the FOAF-DEV mailing list Copyright © 2002-2010 Ian Davis and David Galbraith History Namespace Term Summary Agent
