Please join us at DC2013 in Lisbon for:
"Application Profiles as an alternative to OWL Ontologies"
Convenors: Tom Baker & Karen Coyle
Wednesday, September 4, 14:30-18:00
This session examines how the dual requirements of (data-oriented)
quality control and (Web-oriented) interoperability are addressed using
OWL ontologies and using Application Profiles. This topic is
particularly timely in light of interest in RDF validation in the W3C
community and of the role of community profiles in the data model of the
«Bibliographic Framework Transition Initiative».
Whether patterns are expressed using constraints on data or as
constraints on a model of reality can have unintended consequences when
data is consumed in the Linked Data environment. The choice between
Application Profiles and OWL Ontologies depends on how particular data
is intended to be used.
The session will try to achieve a common view on the strengths and
weaknesses of the two approaches and identify next steps in the
development of simple and practical conventions for Application Profiles.
Three existing ontologies will be used as examples for discussion:
FRBRer, Open Annotation, and the Europeana Data Model. A brief
discussion paper with examples is available:
http://wiki.dublincore.org/index.php/APvOWL_Lisbon
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Karen Coyle
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