> Sadly, I come to find that even what's outlined above is contentious to
many in "the Semantic Web" community. > Basically, we end up with this
horrible misconception that without a perfect vocabulary or ontology you
can't
> even start the journey :-( (01)
I've experienced that strange bias. Whatever the cause of the misconception,
it appears to impede 'doing ontology for the sake of ontology', which
doesn't make much sense put into the context of all the other things we do
for 'it's own sake', nonetheless, 'doing ontology for the sake of ontology'
seems to be freighted with additional baggage. It's not necessary. RDF
provides plenty of constructs for interfaces. (02)
In fact, I think most of the time, 'standard' interfaces will find more
traction with customized ontologies than one might think, although, of
course, we don't /really/ know that until we seek to find applications for
our customized ontologies until we are ready to try. (03)
Don (04)
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On 7/25/13 12:23 PM, Alexander Garcia Castro wrote:
> "ontologies/controlled vocabularies are expensive I dont want to end
> up in there, is this a must? (06)
No, and this is one of the biggest misconceptions swirling around "the
Semantic Web" narratives. It for this reason that whenever I make Turtle
Notation based examples (e.g., [1][2][3][4] ) I stay clear of: (07)
1. prefixes
2. shared vocabularies. (08)
I've told many an audience that the best way to get going is describe the
world as you see it using your own terms. The only constant is the
relationship structure (when its based on EAV/SPO triples) and the relation
semantics facilitated by predicates. Once the basic description has been
created, for the sake of interoperability and/or additional semantic
clarity, cross reference your terms with those described by shared
vocabularies and ontologies. (09)
Sadly, I come to find that even what's outlined above is contentious to many
in "the Semantic Web" community. Basically, we end up with this horrible
misconception that without a perfect vocabulary or ontology you can't even
start the journey :-( (010)
Links: (011)
[1]
http://kingsley.idehen.net/DAV/home/kidehen/Public/Linked%20Data%20Documents
/SimpleCoReferenceExample.txt
-- HTTP URI that denotes a Document (content-type: plain/text) comprised of
the Turtle Notation based content above (012)
[2]
http://kingsley.idehen.net/DAV/home/kidehen/Public/Linked%20Data%20Documents
/SimpleCoReferenceExample.ttl
-- HTTP URI that denotes a Document (content-type: text/turtle) comprised of
the Turtle Notation based content above (013)
[3]
http://linkeddata.uriburner.com/about/html/http/kingsley.idehen.net/DAV/home
/kidehen/Public/Linked%20Data%20Documents/SimpleCoReferenceExample.txt
-- basic Linked Data Browser View (HTML page that enables exploration of the
entity relationships expressed in the document) (014)
[4]
http://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fkingsley.idehen.n
et%2FDAV%2Fhome%2Fkidehen%2FPublic%2FLinked%2520Data%2520Documents%2FSimpleC
oReferenceExample.txt
-- Linked Data Browser View (HTML page that enables *deep* exploration of
the entity relationships expressed in the document) . (015)
-- (016)
Regards, (017)
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