At the LODD telcon this coming Wed, Katy Wolstencroft will present Rightfield http://www.sysmo-db.org/rightfield . The use of tools like Rightfield encourages early semantic commitment / annotation, i.e. disambiguation at point of data entry. With Rightfield, spreadsheet templates can be created, which will more naturally guide people to use unambiguous vocabulary / ontology terms while collecting data.
Katy's presentation will be followed by a discussion of the W3C RDF practices note. http://www.w3.org/wiki/HCLSIG/LODD/Meetings/2011-06-01_Conference_Call Cheers, Scott -- M. Scott Marshall, W3C HCLS IG co-chair, http://www.w3.org/blog/hcls http://staff.science.uva.nl/~marshall