Vocabulary - Down the Code Mine

Reusing Standard RDF Vocabularies - Part 2

Following on from Part 1, we look at a further example of trade-offs and compromise that I made with regards to reusing existing RDF vocabularies in Project Omega at The National Archives; thus reinforcing our earlier position on reuse through a different example.

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Reusing Standard RDF Vocabularies - Part 1

For Project Omega at The National Archives, we are reusing existing RDF vocabularies for our new Catalogue. I examine what happens when a suitable property or class cannot be found within an existing vocabulary, and weigh-up the different approaches and compromises that may need to be made.