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BIBO is fairly heavily used by schema.org, as per: http://lov.okfn.org/dataset/lov/vocabs/bibo That in itself might make W3C hosting an interesting option.[1] I believe that there would need to be a community group behind it, but those are easy to set up. kc [1] https://www.w3.org/2013/04/vocabs/ On 3/15/18 1:58 AM, Adrian Pohl wrote: > Hello, > > the Bibliographic Ontology (Bibo) has been down for several weeks now. > As this is the second time in two years that the ontology is not > available for some time, I think it would be best to give hosting of > this ontology into the hands of a more stable organization. I couldn't > think of a better fit than DCMI. I asked on the Bibo mailing list > whether it would be ok for the creators to let DCMI take over Bibo > hosting and they would be ok with it. > > Now the question is whether DCMI is actually interested in taking over > Bibo hosting. Bibo has been an important ontology for representing > bibliographic data in RDF for quite some time. Over time, it got more > and more competition by ontologies from the library world (RDA, Bibframe > etc.) and schema.org. Anyway, it is still used in several data sets > (e.g. several bibliographic data sets from German library service > centers). Also, it is already linked to DC terms, e.g. in specializing > some of its properties (e.g. dct:contributor). > > What do you think about taking over the hosting? Is this something DCMI > could do? > > All the best > Adrian > -- Karen Coyle [log in to unmask] http://kcoyle.net m: 1-510-435-8234 (Signal) skype: kcoylenet/+1-510-984-3600