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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