Linked Data vocabulary

[pietercolpaert]

One part of the NeTEx specification are useful definitions of specific terms within the NeTEx context. The European ISA² initiative supports European organizations to become more interoperable, and promotes the use of Linked Data and the Resource Description Format (RDF) for raising the semantic interoperability.

Making NeTEx available for use within Linked Data technologies is straightforward: a base URI needs to be added to every term. Then, when visiting this URI in the browser, an RDF representation needs to be returned, describing the term this URI identifies.

An example of other Linked Data vocabularies in the transport domain:

• http://vocab.gtfs.org
• http://vocab.datex.org
• http://semweb.mmlab.be/ns/linkedconnections

Would you be interested in doing this as part of this repository?

[Aurige]

Thanks Peter
That's interesting and probably a work that is in the middle between NeTEx and Transmodel.
And this looks like being quite easy to extract from our UML model.
Are you involved in the ISA² initiative ?
I'm sure it will be interesting for NeTEx and Transmodel to be part of this repository.

[pietercolpaert]

Hi @Aurige,

I'm not involved with ISA². I follow their activities from a distance though, as I believe it's the only way forward to raise the semantic interoperability between open datasets.

It should indeed be easy to generate from a UML file. Tell me if you'd need/want help with that!

[Aurige]

Ok, thanks
Do you have some nice online guidance/how-to/tutorial that I should follow ?

[pietercolpaert]

I like this one myself: http://lov.okfn.org/Recommendations_Vocabulary_Design.pdf