Introduction

pub is a mnemonic used for the vocabulary namespace pub: which contains terms used to define RDF schemas. In N3 you'd define this namespace as so:

@prefix pub:       <http://simile.mit.edu/2005/04/ontologies/publishing#> .

This vocabulary is operationally defined by the Simile folks it's definition can be found ... where?

Usage in this Semantic Wiki

We use terms in this vocabulary in this semantic wiki to for some of our markup. To enable that a number of pages exist that advise the wiki software how to treat the terms as well as providing a place for social activities (doc, discustion, etc) about the terms and their usage.

So, in addition to the special page mediawiki:smw_import_pub these pages include:PUB.

As you can see we don't bother to set up terms in this vocabulary until we need them.