Outline – Evolving Practice --1 …or Bleeding Edge?

• Dereferencing URIs

• Choice of schema language

  • Plain RDF/S? SKOS or OWL (ontological commitment)?

• Reusing, adapting, mixing vocabularies

  • E.g., Dublin Core Application Profiles

• Coining new terms (e.g., see DCMI guidelines)

  • Slash versus hash?

• Vocabulary Ownership

  • “Social meaning” (Jeremy?)