Exisiting vocabularies and ontologies - Overview

List of vocabularies compiled from [1] - (Maybe use terms "Documentation" and "Schema" instead of Spec/Ontology?)

Properties of example classes that appear more than once are removed.

DC

Specification - DC Ontology - DC Terms Ontology

Example Classes

<rdf:Description rdf:about="http://purl.org/dc/terms/title">
 <rdfs:label xml:lang="en-US">Title</rdfs:label>
 <dcterms:description xml:lang="en-US">A name given to the resource.</dcterms:description>
 <rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource="http://purl.org/dc/terms/"/>
 <dcterms:issued>2008-01-14</dcterms:issued>
 <dcterms:modified>2008-01-14</dcterms:modified>
 <rdf:type rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#Property"/>
 <dcterms:hasVersion rdf:resource="http://dublincore.org/usage/terms/history/#titleT-001"/>
 <skos:note xml:lang="en-US">In current practice, this term is used .....</skos:note>
 <rdfs:subPropertyOf rdf:resource="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/title"/>
</rdf:Description>

FOAF

Specification Ontology

Example Classes

<rdfs:Class rdf:about="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Person" rdfs:label="Person" rdfs:comment="A person." s:term_status="stable">
   <rdf:type rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#Class"/>
   <rdfs:subClassOf><owl:Class rdf:about="http://xmlns.com/wordnet/1.6/Person"/></rdfs:subClassOf>
   <rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/"/>
   <owl:disjointWith rdf:resource="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Organization"/>
</rdfs:Class>

SIOC

Specification Ontology

Example Classes

<rdfs:Class rdf:about="http://rdfs.org/sioc/ns#Item">
 <rdfs:label xml:lang="en">Item</rdfs:label>
 <rdf:type rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#Class"/>
 <rdfs:comment xml:lang="en">A content Item that can be posted to or created within a Container.</rdfs:comment>
 <rdfs:subClassOf rdf:resource="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Document"/>
 <rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource="http://rdfs.org/sioc/ns#"/>
 <owl:disjointWith rdf:resource="http://rdfs.org/sioc/ns#Container"/>
</rdfs:Class>

Properties:

<rdf:Property rdf:about="http://rdfs.org/sioc/ns#administrator_of">
 <rdfs:label xml:lang="en">administrator_of</rdfs:label>
 <rdf:type rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#ObjectProperty"/>
 <owl:inverseOf rdf:resource="http://rdfs.org/sioc/ns#has_administrator"/>
 <rdfs:comment xml:lang="en">A Site that the User is an administrator of.</rdfs:comment>
 <rdfs:domain rdf:resource="http://rdfs.org/sioc/ns#User"/>
 <rdfs:range rdf:resource="http://rdfs.org/sioc/ns#Site"/>
 <rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource="http://rdfs.org/sioc/ns#"/>
</rdf:Property>

Ontology itself:

<owl:Ontology rdf:about="http://rdfs.org/sioc/ns#">
 <dc:title xml:lang="en">SIOC Core Ontology Namespace</dc:title>
 <owl:versionInfo>Revision: 1.27</owl:versionInfo>
 <dc:description xml:lang="en">SIOC .............</dc:description>
 <rdfs:seeAlso rdf:resource="http://rdfs.org/sioc/spec" rdfs:label="SIOC Core Ontology Specification"/>
</owl:Ontology>

Other used properties

owl:DeprecatedProperty
owl:imports (used in modules)

SKOS

Specification

== Basic Geo == Spec Ontology

DOAP

Ontology

DOAS - [2]

Programmes Ontology - [3]

MOAT - [4]

VANN: [5] A vocabulary for annotating vocabulary descriptions

SCOT [www.scot-project.org] Vocab

BIBO - Specification, mailing list. The Bibliographic Ontology aims to be the basis ontology used to describe bibliographic things on the semantic Web in RDF. This ontology can be used as a citation ontology, as a document classification ontology, or simply has a way to describe any kind of document in RDF. It has been inspired by many existing document description metadata formats, and make it an ontology that can be used as a common ground for converting other bibliographic data sources.

Music Vocabulary [6] - Vocabulary for classical music.

Music Ontology [7]

HTTP vocabulary in RDF [8]

Expression of Core FRBR Concepts in RDF - [9] - detailed vocabulary for bibliographical records

Ontology for vCards [10]

IMDB Mapping Movie Ontology [11] - Schema for representing IMDB data in RDF

Genesis Data Model [12] - A genealogy RDF vocab. Nice tutorial, describes provenance handling with named graphs.

Extensions to standard DOAP [13] - Vocabulary for specifying the standards (RFCs etc.) that are relevant to a software project