Outline – Evolving Practice -- 2 …or Bleeding Edge?

• Work-flow for maintaining vocabularies

  • One extreme: DCMI XSLT scripts. Other: big ontologies

• The notion of “namespace” (vs “vocabulary”)

• What is a “term”?

  • Thesaurus world: lexical versus conceptual view
  • DCMI: Properties/classes identified by URIs
  • Some RDF specs (e.g., SPARQL): “the URIs themselves”