Creating an RDF vocabulary: Lessons learned
Posted on March 7, 2011 by Richard Cyganiak
With tools like Neologism and OpenVocab, creating an RDF vocabulary is easy. But if your goal is re-use within a wider community, you will face many questions that are not so easy to answer:
How much work is it going to be and what timeframe is realistic?
How broad and how deeply should you cover the domain? Where to stop?
Work alone or seek collaborators?
Should you start by setting up a mailing list, or by producing a first draft?
How much documentation do you need to produce?
Whose feature requests and modeling ideas should you heed and whose ignore?
How to keep pushing towards the uncertain goal of “adoption” in the face of limited time?
