The
Vocabulary Carnival at SEMANTiCS 2016 is a unique opportunity for
vocabulary publishers to showcase and share their work, meet the
growing community of vocabulary publishers and users, and build
useful semantic, technical and social links.
When?
The Vocabulary Carnival is part of the SEMANTiCS programme with
the
Carnival Minute Madness on the 13th of September and on the
industrial marketplace.
What
kind
of vocabularies do we expect?
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Any kind! For this event we use a very open definition
of what a vocabulary is. Ontologies, classifications,
thesauri, concept and metadata schemes, whatever their format,
in RDF or not, are all welcome.
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Bootstrap your new Vocabulary project: At the carnival
you can present your ideas and early stage vocabs to find the
right people to get the Vocab discussion going. We require at
least a project web site.
What is your
benefit of submitting?
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attention:
make people aware of your work
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feedback:
a room full of other vocabulary creators will guarantee expert
feedback
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linking:
discover links from your vocabulary to others on-site
How to submit
your Vocabulary to the Carnival?
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Make sure your vocabulary is accessible on the Web through a
public URI.
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Communicate your intention to participate at https://goo.gl/mV3VpZ
by joining and posting your vocabulary link and writing “See
you at the Carnival in Leipzig” or send an email to
monika.solanki AT cs.ox.ac.uk , with subject “Vocabulary
Carnival”.
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Register to SEMANTiCS:
http://2016.semantics.cc/registration/
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Submissions will be handled on a first come, first serve
basis
Are
there
any technical requirements?
Your
vocabulary
submission will be evaluated in accordance to the
following criteria:
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Reusability - Which vocabularies and/or ontology design
patterns have been reused in its development? Has it been
mapped, aligned, imported within other ontologies yet? If not,
where do you foresee potential reuse?
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Value addition - How does the vocabulary provide value
addition for the intended project or domain as compared to
previous efforts and to Semantic Web in general?
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Design and Technical quality - how do the ontologies
incorporate best practices in design, i.e., using ontology
design patterns or extending from upper level ontologies?
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Documentation - does the vocabulary provide both human
and machine readable documentation using for e.g., rdfs:label,
rdfs:comment and HTML documentation?
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Availability: We expect your vocabulary (terminology,
taxonomy, ontology, etc.) to be hosted on the Web at a
persistent URI (PURL, w3id, ODI) and with an appropriate
licence specification. If it is not Linked Data or uploaded to http://lov.okfn.org
you can get technical help and advise at the conference.
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Usage: Which academic/industrial projects have adopted
the vocabulary? Which datasets have been annotated using the
vocabulary?
At
the
SEMANTiCS 2016 Conference:
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Prepare a poster (max format A0) presenting your vocabulary:
description, purpose, history and link to its publication
page. Your description of the vocabulary must include the
above criteria.
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Present your poster in the dedicated space at SEMANTiCS
conference.
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Brace yourself to participate in the Vocabulary Minute
Madness, where every vocabulary will have one minute to
convince of its usefulness and quality. Sporting your
vocabulary colors at this occasion is optional, but will be
much appreciated.
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An independent jury will select the best vocabulary poster and
presentation.
Vocabulary
Carnival
and LOV
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If your vocabulary is already recorded at http://lov.okn.org,
check its record to see if everything is OK. Ping the LOV
curators if something is missing or inaccurate, or if you
brush up a brand new version for the Carnival. If you think
your vocabulary is LOV-able but not yet recorded, submit its
URI at http://lov.okfn.org/dataset/lov/suggest/
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If your vocabulary is not yet meeting the technical
requirements to be included in LOV, and you wish it could, we
can help you to achieve that during the Carnival.
About the
Vocabulary Carnival
The
Vocabulary Carnival will be hosted at the SEMANTiCS conference,
Sep
12-15 2016
Contact
Monika
Solanki
(monika.solanki AT cs.ox.ac.uk)
Ghislain
Atemezing
(ghislain.atemezing AT mondeca.com)
