One of the major barriers to the deployment of Linked Data is the difficulty that data publishers have in determining which vocabularies to use to describe the semantics of data. This systematic report describes Linked Open Vocabularies (LOV), a high-quality catalogue of reusable vocabularies for the description of data on the Web. The adoption of LOV by many applications and methods shows the importance of such a set of vocabularies and related features for ontology design and the publication of data on the Web.
URL: http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/system/files/swj1178.pdf
Keywords: Linked Open Vocabularies (LOV), Ontologies, Vocabulary, Application Program Interface (API)
Author: Vatant, MarÃa
Publisher: IOS Press
Date created: 2014-01-01 05:00:00.000
Language: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/eng
Time required: P30M
- [MOVE] Knows portals and registries for finding RDF-based vocabularies.
- Knows that the word "ontology" is ambiguous, referring to any RDF vocabulary, but more typically a set of OWL classes and properties designed to support inferencing in a specific domain.
- Reuses published properties and classes where available.