Hi Scot
just to pipe in and agree with Tom and Sean on this - it's best not to
get too hung up on the vocabulary [sic]. It is one of the great
ironies of the semantic movement that many of the terms used have
somewhat opaque definitions (unfortunately that includes some formally
defined ones as well). As a general rule it helps to think carefully
about the structural role different RDF/URI resources are trying to
provide. Some focus on cataloguing instances of stuff (Pleiades for
example), others focus on verbs and/or categories to connect them
together (like the CIDOC CRM), and others have very specific
vocabularies for connection which do one thing but do it well (Open
Annotation; SKOS, etc.). Wikipedia is often a good place to get a
summary overview of each of their uses. In case it helps (it may not)
there's a summary of Semantic Web developments for archaeology and
cultural heritage that isn't quite up to date but may be handy as a
primer in the early chapters of my PhD thesis:
http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/206421/
All the best
Leif
On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 10:02 PM, Scot Mcphee <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Thank you very much Tom and Sean
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> I will read those sources.
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> On 08/04/2013, at 04:18 , Sean Gillies <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> In "Semantic web for the working ontologist : modeling in RDF, RDFS and OWL"
> (http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/184925396) Allemang and Hendler explain
> "ontology" as "model". Vocabularies are lists of terms, so are smaller in
> scope but essential components of models.
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> I've added 4 that Pleiades uses (Cito, W3C Prov, NeoGeo Spatial Ontology,
> and Pleiades Place/Location/Name). Links to the Pleiades RDF are at
> https://github.com/isawnyu/pleiades-rdf.
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> On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 10:11 AM, Tom Elliott <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Scott:
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>> The linked data community, IMO, suffers from some of the same problems as
>> its Semantic Web progenitor community in this regard. Here's a handful of
>> links that might help put things in perspective in general terms. Allow me
>> to say that the terms "ontology" and "vocabulary" etc. are slippery;
>> different people mean different things by them.
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_data
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x_xzT5eF5Q
>> http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html
>> http://www.w3.org/QA/2010/05/linked_data_its_is_not_like_th.html
>> http://www.w3.org/standards/semanticweb/data
>> http://linkeddata.org/
>> http://lov.okfn.org/dataset/lov/
>>
>> Tom Elliott, Ph.D.
>> Associate Director for Digital Programs and Senior Research Scholar
>> Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (NYU)
>> http://isaw.nyu.edu/people/staff/tom-elliott
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>> On Apr 7, 2013, at 7:33 AM, Scot Mcphee wrote:
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>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I have a somewhat more basic inquiry. Is there a good resource to
>> > describe what all of this is?
>> >
>> > A long time before I started out on the path to becoming a classicist, I
>> > took undergraduate studies in computer science, and continental philosophy.
>> > I still work as a computer programmer. However, for example, I don't
>> > understand what is meant by "ontology" in the context of discussions about
>> > data. Is it a description of a data structure?
>> >
>> > So for someone like me, who programs fluently in five or six computer
>> > languages and understands XML technology fairly well, this should be simple,
>> > but I cannot penetrate the jargon sufficiently to get started with it. I am
>> > obviously missing a significant piece of the puzzle.
>> >
>> > Where is a beginners resource for this stuff? What are the basic tools?
>> >
>> > Thanks for your patience
>> >
>> > Scot Mcphee
>> >
>> > On 06/04/2013, at 06:47 , "Kalvesmaki, Joel" <[log in to unmask]>
>> > wrote:
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>> >> Hello everyone,
>> >>
>> >> I just started a new page on the DC wiki:
>> >> http://wiki.digitalclassicist.org/RDF_vocabularies_for_classicists
>> >>
>> >> If you have a vocabulary to recommend, please add it. If you have a
>> >> project that uses a vocabulary, and that project has a wiki page, include
>> >> the category tag [[category:Linked open data]].
>> >>
>> >> The page could use some development. It would be nice to explain what
>> >> are the notable strengths and weaknesses of the various vocabularies, at
>> >> least to classicists.
>> >>
>> >> Best wishes,
>> >>
>> >> jk
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>> >> Joel Kalvesmaki
>> >> Editor in Byzantine Studies
>> >> Dumbarton Oaks
>> >> 1703 32nd St. NW
>> >> Washington, DC 20007
>> >> (202) 339-6435
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