Introduction

The project uses a broad range of RDF vocabularies. Many of these have a page to document and discuss these here in the wiki.

Table of Vocabularies

Prefered prefix Description Maintainer
DCThe dublin core vocabulary provides terms useful for simple cataloging purposes.Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
DOAPdoap:DOAP defines an RDF vocabulary useful for describing a software project, it's versions, and contributors.Useful Information Company
ENTent:The ent: vocabulary is an adhoc set of terms for describing entities.Simile
FACTBOOKfactbook:An RDF vocabulary used to encode the CIA Fact Book.DAML
FIPSfips:An RDF vocabulary encode US Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 10-4 Country Codes.DAML
FOAFFOAF is an RDF vocabulary for describing people, organizations, and relations among them.The FOAF Project
FresnelAn RDF vocabulary used to help display RDF.Members of the W3C Semantic Web Interest Group
ICALical:The ical vocabulary is used to describe calender events.
MODS3mod3:Mods is an adhoc RDF vocabulary used by the Simile team when converting MODS into RDF.Simile
OWLowl:OWL provides and RDF vocabulary for making complex statements the terms uses in RDF data and form of the data.W3C Semantic Web Activity
PBpb:The RDF vocabulary used in Piggy Bank.
PUB
RDFrdf:RDF is a mnemonic standing for Resource Description Framework; i.e. it's a way to describe stuff. We use it to describe all kinds of stuff, aka resources.
The RDF vocabulary known as rdf: has core terms needed to bootstrap things.
W3C Semantic Web Activity
RDFSrdfs:The RDF vocabulary known as RDFS contains terms for making statements which define new vocabularies.W3C Semantic Web Activity
VIAvia:The via vocabulary is an adhoc vocabulary used by the Simile project to encode the VIA catalog into RDF.Simile
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