Introduction to VoMaG Outcomes of the TDWG Vocabulary Management Task Group TDWG 2013 Annual Conference, Florence, Italy Éamonn Ó Tuama Senior Programme Officer for Interoperability Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) 31 October 2013
Established as task group under TDWG TAG, November 2012 Grew from ViBRANT work package 4 Initial conveners: Dag Endresen and Éamonn Ó Tuama Co-opted Steve Baskauf (RDF/OWL Task Group) and Gregor Hagedorn (Semantic MediaWiki) VoMaG history
VoMaG communication platform on GBIF Community Site VoMaG Charter outlines strategy and goals VoMaG report VoMaG process 49 members
Initial development on VoMaG Site Two rounds of review (within group and public) VoMaG report delivered to TDWG on Sept 20 th Two related sessions at TDWG organised VoMaG report
Three main sections Status of the TDWG ontology Semantic MediaWiki as a development platform Requirements for a framework for managing vocabularies VoMaG report
Agenda TimeTitle/Presenter – Introduction to VoMaG Éamonn Ó Tuama – The TDWG Ontologies Steve Baskauf – A framework for managing vocabularies Dag Endresen – Semantic MediaWiki - a community platform for vocabulary development Gregor Hagedorn – Developing a vocabulary: the SINP use case Julie Chataigner & Laurent Poncet – Modeling property values: Is SKOS part of the solution or part of the problem? Robert A. Morris – 10.30General discussion
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