On Jan 5, 2015, at 1:35 PM, Karen Coyle <[email protected]> wrote: > 1) Everyone should read at least the first chapters of the Allemang book, > Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist: > http://www.worldcat.org/title/semantic-web-for-the-working-ontologist-effective-modeling-in-rdfs-and-owl/oclc/73393667
+2 because it is a very good book > 2) Everyone should understand the RDF meaning of classes, properties, domain > and range before beginning. (cf: > http://kcoyle.blogspot.com/2014/11/classes-in-rdf.html) +1 for knowing the distinctions between these things, yes > 3) Don't lean too heavily on Protege. Protege is very OWL-oriented and can > lead one far astray. It's easy to click on check boxes without knowing what > they really mean. Do as much development as you can without using Protege, > and do your development in RDFS not OWL. Later you can use Protege to check > your work, or to complete the code. +1 but at the same time workshops are good places to see how things get done in a limited period of time. > 4) Develop in ntriples or turtle but NOT rdf/xml. RDF differs from XML in > some fundamental ways that are not obvious, and developing in rdf/xml masks > these differences and often leads to the development of not very good > ontologies. +1 & -1 because each of the RDF serializations have its own advantages and disadvantages — Eric Morgan
