For those of you interested in deploying RDF on the Web, I'd like to draw your attention to three new proposed standards from IETF, "Web Linking", "Defining Well-Known URIs", and "Web Host Metadata", that create new follow-your-nose tricks that...
This post is part of a series, following on from my earlier post Restarting Linked Data from scratch, part 1. In this post I'm going to take the first step by trying to approach publishing and exposing linked data RESTfully. I'm assuming that if you are reading this, you know what linked data is, and REST [...]
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The BIO schema contains terms useful for finding out more about people and their backgrounds and has some cross-over into genealogical information. The approach taken is to describe a person's life as a series of interconnected key events, around which other information can be woven. This vocabulary defines the event framework and supplies a set of core event types that cover many use cases, but it is expected that it will be extended in other vocabularies to suit their needs. The intention of this vocabulary is to describe biographical events of people and this intention carries through to the definitions of the properties and classes which are person-centric rather than neutral. For example the Employment event puts the person being employed as the principal agent in the event rather than the employer.
