Re: data schema / vocabulary / ontology / repositories

2011-03-15 Thread Tom Heath
A huge +1! In my practical experience, Falcons is by far the best tool for finding suitable terms from existing ontologies. I hope the other tools will take note and stimulate some further competition in this area ;) Tom. On 14 March 2011 10:55, Iker Huerga wrote: > Hi all, > These are the tool

Re: data schema / vocabulary / ontology / repositories

2011-03-15 Thread Michael F Uschold
Ranking ontologies is indeed very personal, so is ranking of laptops, bicycles and books. But people rank them all the time. My first port of call is always Amazon. Might it work to have similar ratings for ontologies and vocabularies? The home for this could be OOR. Michael On Mon, Mar 14, 20

Re: data schema / vocabulary / ontology / repositories

2011-03-15 Thread Michael F Uschold
Dieter, Thank you for raising this issue. I discovered the same problem a couple years ago, lots of data, no ontologies. Christopher has a good idea that is not hard to make good progress on. In my work with linked data, in 08-09, I needed ontologies. So I wrote a simple automated ontology-extrac

Re: data schema / vocabulary / ontology / repositories

2011-03-15 Thread Tim Harsch
Here is something along that lines: http://richard.cyganiak.de/blog/2011/02/top-100-most-popular-rdf-namespace-prefixes/ On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 2:18 PM, Christopher Gutteridge wrote: > That gives me quite an interesting idea.. you could do some studies with > queries to find what predicates we

Open position in Knowledge Management & Linked Data at Vrije Universiteit Brussel

2011-03-15 Thread Christophe Debruyne
The Semantics Technology and Applications Research Laboratory (STARLab) [1], part of the Computer Science Department of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) [2] is offering a 1-year position for a junior researcher in the area of knowledge management, open data and linked data. The candidate wil

Re: data schema / vocabulary / ontology / repositories

2011-03-15 Thread Renaud Delbru
Hi Keith, On 14/03/11 13:18, Keith Alexander wrote: On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Martin Hepp wrote: Hi Dieter: There are several ontology repositories available on-line, but to my knowledge they all suffer from two serious limitations: 1. They do not rate ontologies by quality/relevanc

Re: data schema / vocabulary / ontology / repositories

2011-03-15 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 3/15/11 12:00 PM, Renaud Delbru wrote: Hi Keith, On 14/03/11 13:18, Keith Alexander wrote: On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Martin Hepp wrote: Hi Dieter: There are several ontology repositories available on-line, but to my knowledge they all suffer from two serious limitations: 1. The

SSSW 2011 Summer School: Registration deadline approaching

2011-03-15 Thread Mathieu D'Aquin
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