Vocabulary Mapping Framework
This is the website of the Vocabulary Mapping Framework (VMF). It provides support for semantic interoperability across communities by providing extensive and authoritative mapping of [...]
Making URIs published on Data Web RDF dereferencable
Although,quite a few practical recipes for publishing URIs have been provided to make URIs dereferencable, the authors of this paper believe a fundamental investigation of [...]
Introduction to: Triplestores
This brief weblog entry describes the differences between triple stores and relational database systems. It also discusses the similarities and differences with NoSQL Graph databases. [...]
Application Profiles as Machine-Understandable Narratives
The SCHEMAS Registry aims at providing a selected and annotated overview of metadata vocabularies and their use in application environments. Based on harvested metadata in [...]
Schema.org – What, How, Why?
This presentation explains why search engines now want metadata, how it works, and what you need to know as a developer (as seen in the [...]
Semantic Web Tutorial 11/14: RDF Schema and OWL 3/4
Follows where previous video left off with its description of classes, properties, domain and range. Discusses how RDF Schema approaches membership of a class differently [...]
Semantic Web Tutorial 10/14: RDF Schema and OWL 2/4
Follows where previous video left off, describing how RDF Schema is itself a vocabulary and how it can be used to define new classes of [...]
Who Needs SKOS-XL? Maybe No One
This blog post from "Voyages of the Semantic Enterprise" discusses the following issues and invites feedback: The SKOS-XL extension to the W3Cs SKOS standard for [...]
Learning from the Masters: Understanding Ontologies found on the Web (Part 2)
The purpose of this presentation was to help conference attendees gain sufficient experience of working with OWL and tools (e.g., the Swoop ontology editor/browser) to [...]
Building and Using Ontologies
The speaker discusses the meaning of the word "ontology" in the context of computer science before focusing on how to select a relevant ontology for [...]