[DDI-users] DDI RDF Vocabularies - DDI-RDF Discovery and XKOS

[Wackerow, Joachim]

Work is under way on two RDF vocabularies, the DDI-RDF Discovery vocabulary for publishing metadata about datasets into the Web of Linked Data, and XKOS, an RDF vocabulary for describing statistical classifications, which is an extension of the popular SKOS vocabulary. The public review of both vocabularies is planned for 2013.

There is now information available on both RDF vocabularies at the DDI Alliance website.

Please have a look at:
Overview: http://www.ddialliance.org/Specification/RDF
DDI-RDF Discovery: http://www.ddialliance.org/Specification/RDF/Discovery
XKOS: http://www.ddialliance.org/Specification/RDF/XKOS
Working group: http://www.ddialliance.org/alliance/working-groups#RDF

There were two conferences in May where both, the DDI-RDF Discovery and the XKOS vocabularies were presented.

Linked Data on the Web (LDOW2013) at the World Wide Web Conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 14.
http://events.linkeddata.org/ldow2013/
DDI-RDF Discovery Vocabulary: A Metadata Vocabulary for Documenting Research and Survey Data. Thomas Bosch, Richard Cyganiak, Arofan Gregory, Joachim Wackerow
Paper: http://events.linkeddata.org/ldow2013/papers/ldow2013-paper-12.pdf
Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/boschthomas/201305-ldow-2013-www-2013

METIS 2013 - Work Session on Statistical Metadata, a conference of the official statistics. Venue at UNECE, Geneva, Switzerland, May 6-8.
http://www.unece.org/stats/documents/2013.05.metis.html
eXtended Knowledge Organization System (XKOS). Dan Gillman, Franck Cotton, and Yves Jaques
Paper: http://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/stats/documents/ece/ces/ge.40/2013/WP10.pdf
Slides: http://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/stats/documents/2006/WP10_slides.ppt

Please note that both vocabularies are still in the works but are in a mature stage. Any comments at the related discussion forum are welcome (see the Overview link, mentioned above).

Achim


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