On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 11:32:59AM +0200, Dan Brickley wrote: > As a vocabulary manager, it is pretty hard to understand the costs and > benefits of possible changes to a widely deployed RDF vocabulary. I'm > sure I'm not alone in this; Tom (cc:'d) I expect would vouch the same > regarding the Dublin Core terms. So if there could be some view of the > new cloud diagram that showed us which blobs (er, datasets) used which > vocabulary (and which terms), that would be really wonderful. On the > Dublin Core side, it would be fascinating to see which datasets are > using http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/ and which are using > http://purl.org/dc/terms/ (and which are using both). Similarly with > FOAF, I'd like to understand common deployment patterns better. I > expect other vocab managers and dataset publishersare in a similar > situation, and would appreciate a map of the wider territory, so they > know how to fit in with trends and conventions, or what missing pieces > of vocabulary might need more work...
+1 Data on common deployment patterns would be great! If connecting vocabularies with specific datasets were visually too ambitious, then as a first approximation there could perhaps be a separate vocabulary cloud reflecting the relative numbers of triples using the various vocabularies, along with links reflecting the co-occurrence of specific vocabularies with others within datasets -- a broad-brush, aggregate view of vocabulary deployment patterns. -- Tom Baker <[email protected]>
