Vocabularies
Vocabularies
Vocabularies
1. FOAF ( http://xmlns.com/foaf/spec/ )
• FOAF is a project devoted to linking people and information using the Web.
Regardless of whether information is in people's heads, in physical or digital
documents, or in the form of factual data, it can be linked. FOAF integrates three
kinds of network: social networks of human collaboration, friendship and
association; representational networks that describe a simplified view of a cartoon
universe in factual terms, and information networks that use Web-based linking to
share independently published descriptions of this inter-connected world. FOAF
does not compete with socially-oriented Web sites; rather it provides an approach
in which different sites can tell different parts of the larger story, and by which
users can retain some control over their information in a non-proprietary format.
2. DC ( Dublin Core )
• DCMI metadata terms are expressed in RDF vocabularies for use in Linked Data.
Creators of non-RDF metadata can use the terms in contexts such as XML, JSON,
UML, or relational databases by disregarding both the global identifier and the formal
implications of the RDF-specific aspects of term definitions. Such users can take
domain, range, subproperty, and subclass relations as usage suggestions and focus on
the natural-language text of definitions, usage notes, and examples.
• Each term is identified with a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), a global identifier
usable in Linked Data. Term URIs resolve to the (DCMI Metadata Terms) document
when selected in a browser or, when referenced programmatically by RDF applications,
to one of four RDF schemas. The scope of each RDF schema corresponds to a "DCMI
namespace", or set of DCMI metadata terms that are identified using a common base
URI, as enumerated in the DCMI Namespace Policy. In Linked Data, the URIs for
DCMI namespaces are often declared as prefixes in order to make data, queries, and
schemas more concise and readable.
3. SKOS
• SKOS is an area of work developing specifications and standards to
support the use of knowledge organization systems (KOS) such as
thesauri, classification schemes, subject heading systems and
taxonomies within the framework of the Semantic Web.
• SKOS provides a standard way to represent knowledge organization
systems using the Resource Description Framework (RDF). Encoding
this information in RDF allows it to be passed between computer
applications in an interoperable way.
4. CIDOC CRM ( http://www.cidoc-crm.org/ )