Help:Semantic vocabularies overview

(This is a quick reference for frequently accessed vocabulary or ontology resources.)

Meta-Vocabularies and Meta-Ontologies

This sections lists schemata, vocabularies, and ontologies that are used to express other vocabularies or ontologies.

• Resource Description Framework (RDF): Overview/Current Status
  • Best Practice Recipes for Publishing RDF Vocabularies
  • RDF Schema (RDFS): RDF Vocabulary Description Language 1.0
• Web Ontology Language (OWL): Reference
  • OWL2: Overview
• Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS): Reference
• Vocabulary Status: http://www.w3.org/2003/06/sw-vocab-status/ns
• VANN, A vocabulary for annotating vocabulary descriptions: http://vocab.org/vann/.html

Generic vocabularies or ontologies

• DublinCore: dc elements, DCMI metadata terms, dcterms as RDF

Biodiversity vocabularies or ontologies

• Audubon Core