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Paul:

If DC-Arch were a busy venue for discussion, I could see taking this particular conversation offline. As it is, I see no reason not to use the general list, as this topic has general applicability in addition to the particular issue about what DCMI should do.

There's a sense that transparency is no longer a value which I find more than a bit disturbing.
Diane

On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 6:09 AM, Paul Walk <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Hi Adrian,
this is an interesting proposition. Rather than discussing this on the architecture forum, perhaps we could have a conversation about this?

If anyone here is interested in joining that conversation, please let me know directly ([log in to unmask]) and I’ll set up a group call.

Thanks,

Paul

> On 15 Mar 2018, at 08:58, Adrian Pohl <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Hello,
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> 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.
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> 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).
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> What do you think about taking over the hosting? Is this something DCMI could do?
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> All the best
> Adrian

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