Kevin, thanks.

Is it valid to re-word this as: How can I extend an RDF vocabulary if I 
need to?

I think the question of publishing vocabularies (as well as publishing 
an extension) is part of that. I could see this extending to best 
practices for "naming" (e.g. URI/IRIs), and perhaps even a bit about 
documenting.

Great topic!
kc


On 9/2/13 1:25 AM, Kevin Ford wrote:
> Dear Karen,
>
> I think that "how extensible RDF is" would be a very good topic. I'm 
> not talking about the theoretical extensibility of RDF, but how to do 
> it in a practical manner.  That is, if you have a role, or some other 
> relationship, for example, and you want to use it. Linked Data 
> provides a facile way to assert one's own value/entity/resource so 
> long as it is asserted so that others can readily learn what you mean, 
> by publishing it so that it is HTTP acceesible.
>
> This issue, for me, has come up on a number of occasions, but the most 
> recent convo I had about this was on the BIBFRAME listserv. I do hope 
> it is OK that I trot this out here:
>
> http://listserv.loc.gov/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1308&L=bibframe&T=0&X=1419B34D33AC66F564&P=6617 
>
>
> Yours,
> Kevin
>
>
>
>
> On 09/01/2013 12:37 PM, Karen Coyle wrote:
>> I'm thinking about training needs around linked data -- yes, that
>> includes basic concepts, but at the moment I'm wondering what specific
>> technologies or tasks people would like to learn about? Some obvious
>> examples are: how to do SPARQL queries; how to use triples in databases;
>> maybe how to use Protege (free software) [1] to create an ontology.
>> Those are just a quick shot across the bow, and from my basically
>> non-techie point of view. Please add your own.
>>
>> If you can't say it in terms of technology, it would be as good (if not
>> maybe better) to say it in terms of what you'd like to be able to do (do
>> searches, create data... )
>>
>> This is very unscientific, but I think it's a worthwhile conversation to
>> have, and maybe can help get some ideas for training.
>>
>> kc
>> [1] http://protege.stanford.edu/
>>

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