RDF vocabularies and application profiles
Simple Protege Tutorial: Adding Data Properties
In this video, data properties are added to express the relationships between instances and data values, as well as setting domain and range restrictions for [...]
Simple Protege Tutorial: Publishing the Ontology
In this video, the ontology file created using the Protege tool is published online. The presenter uses FileZilla to upload the file, but any other [...]
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
A video lecture introducing RDF Schema and OWL, with visible slides throughout. The concepts behind ontologies are also discussed in a general, schema-agnostic manner. Places [...]
What Is Ontology? Introduction to the Word and the Concept
This video explains the many different meanings of the word "ontology". It begins by discussing the terms origins and use in philosophy, then moves on [...]
Is Your Linked Data Vocabulary 5-Star?
This blog post argues that is is not enough just to publish one's Linked Data datasets according to a set of best practices, it is [...]
Permanent Identifiers and Vocabulary Publication: purl.org and w3id
This blog post addresses concerns with the stability of purl for hosting permanent URIs. As a possible alternative, the author presents w3id.org, an effort launched [...]
The AMOR Manifesto: Blueprint for an Ontology Ecosystem
The goal for the AMOR Manifesto is to articulate the vision of an ecosystem of Accessible, Machine-readable, Open, and Reusable ontologies that facilitates the reuse [...]
The Nuts and Bolts of Thesaurus Development and Maintenance
In this video, the narrator explains how to develop a taxonomy from scratch and how to modify an existing vocabulary. He demonstrates how to structure [...]
RDF XML
Despite the title, this resource covers more territory than simply expressing RDF in the XML serialization. It also gives a basic description of the RDF [...]
How to (Properly) Publish a Vocabulary or Ontology On the Web, Part 6
This resource contains a set of guidelines on how to reuse other vocabularies (i.e., how one's vocabulary should link to other vocabularies). Reuse is not [...]