On Jan 19, 2014, at 10:58 AM, Karen Coyle <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>> If you were to select a set of RDF ontologies intended to be used in the linked data of archival descriptions, then what ontologies would you select?
> 
> There is an ontology for archival description developed by the Europeana 
> project. The web site for the ontology is here:
> 
>    http://pro.europeana.eu/edm-documentation
> 
> and there are some good articles about it here and here:
> 
>    http://ontogenealogy.com/europeana-data-model-edm/
>    http://semanticweb.com/tag/europeana-data-model
> 
> Note that Europeana provides an XSD version of the ontology because that 
> is what most of the contributors could handle. (The list of contributors 
> is here: http://www.europeana.eu/portal/europeana-providers.html).
> 
> When looking for vocabularies, you might want to have a look at the 
> Linked Open Vocabularies site:
> 
>   http://lov.okfn.org/dataset/lov/


Very nice. Thank you very much. At the LOV site I found a few vocabularies/ontologies I hadn’t seen previously. —Eric Morgan