Mondeca Adds to Linked Open Vocabularies
July 26, 2013
The growing web of linked data not only grows in volume of data, but also in a growing set of vocabularies. We recently saw on Open Knowledge Foundation’s site that Mondeca’s Linked Open Vocabularies (LOV) have been updated. A collection of vocabulary spaces.
Users are able to find vocabularies listed and individually described by metadata, classified by vocabulary spaces and interlinked using the dedicated vocabulary VOAF.
We learned more about what LOV is about:
“Most popular ones form now a core of Semantic Web standards de jure (SKOS, Dublin Core, FRBR …) or de facto (FOAF, Event Ontology …). But many more are published and used. Not only linked data leverage a growing set of vocabularies, but vocabularies themselves rely more and more on each other through reusing, refining or extending, stating equivalences, declaring metadata. LOV objective is to provide easy access methods to this ecosystem of vocabularies, and in particular by making explicit the ways they link to each other and providing metrics on how they are used in the linked data cloud, help to improve their understanding, visibility and usability, and overall quality.”
There are a myriad of ways that those interested can feed their inner controlled vocabulary demon. One of which is to suggest a new vocabulary to add to LOV.
Megan Feil, July 26, 2013
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