Publishing a Concept Scheme on the Semantic Web

To publish your scheme:

create a file or files containing a serialisation of the RDF description of your concept scheme,
upload the file(s) to a standard web server.

Whether the serialization uses the RDF/XML, N3 N-Triples RDF syntax doesn't matter ... all RDF toolkits can parse these syntaxes.

Note that the RDF description of your concept scheme does not necessarily have to be contained in a single file. It is perfectly acceptable to have concepts declared in one file referencing concepts or a concept scheme declared in another.

Resolving URIs

If you have used an HTTP URI to identify your concept scheme, then you can set up your web server so that the URI identifying the concept scheme resolves to an HTML or RDF (or ideally content-negotiable) description of the scheme itself.

If you have used HTTP URIs to identify your concepts, then you can set up your web server so that each concept URI resolves to an HTML or RDF (or ideally content-negotiable) description of that concept.

Having scheme and concept URIs resolve to useful resources can make your scheme much more accessilbe to new users.

See the section [concept URIs] for further discussion of options here.

End section