Chris Bizer wrote:
Hi Bob and Kingsley,
a while ago there was a RDF version of Wikicompany online at
http://dbpedia.openlinksw.com/wikicompany/resource/Wikicompany
Maybe it would also be an idea to reuse terms from the vocabulary of
this source.
Kingsley: The URI abouve currently gives a 500 return code. Do you
know what happend to the site?
As an alternative you could also think about reusing the terms that
are currently used within DBpedia to describe organizations.
Chris,
Wikicompany is certainly the place to start.
The URI should be live again.
Kingsley
Cheers
Chris
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----- Original Message -----
*From:* Bob Wyman <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:* Friday, June 27, 2008 1:19 AM
*Subject:* Linked Data re Non-Profits and NGO's. Have data, need
vocabulary.
I would like to make available as Linked Data several databases
describing several million non-profits, NGO's and foundations. The
data includes things like name of organization, address, budget,
source of funds, major programs, key personnel, relationships to
other organizations, area of expertise, etc.
What I don't have is an RDF vocabulary with which to describe
these things. While I could define one myself, I would like to
base my work on existing standards," or common practice, however,
seemingly endless digging through the web indicates that there
aren't any obvious "standards" for describing even basic things
like address in RDF. Perhaps, I'm looking in the wrong places...
Ideally, I would find some well formed vocabulary for a "Business
Description" that I could use or adapt. I would appreciate it if
anyone could give me pointers to either such a well worked
vocabulary or at least to smaller vocabularies for things like
address that I could use in composing a vocabulary with which to
publish this data. Can you help?
bob wyman
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