On Oct 15, 2023, at 12:51 PM, Karen Coyle <li...@kcoyle.net> wrote:
> One thing I keep running into is the downside of everyone creating their own > vocabularies. It's easy enough to do, but 1) not everyone has a namespace > they can use and 2) even if they have a namespace there is the maintenance > problem. How will we maintain all of these vocabularies in a massively shared > environment? (I recently had to dig around to find the person who could > revive vocab.org -- some very useful vocabularies but the namespace had > expired.) It is telling that W3C began to offer a "universal namespace" for > vocabularies but quickly decided to pull back on that. DC is currently acting > as the archive for BIBO and FOAF, but I'm not sure how sustainable that is. Yep, a veritable Tower of Babel. --Eric Morgan (University of Notre Dame)