[Esip-semantictech] FW: [EXTERNAL] Fwd: [ANN] DBpedia Archivo - Call to improve the web of ontologies

[Mcgibbney, Lewis J (172B)]

FYI folks.
This is particularly relevant to the 5-stars of vocabulary which Simon and Lesley featured at last weeks CODATA event.
Lewis

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From: Lewis John Mcgibbney <lewis.mcgibbney at gmail.com>
Date: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 at 3:38 PM
To: "Mcgibbney, Lewis J (172B)" <lewis.j.mcgibbney at jpl.nasa.gov>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Fwd: [ANN] DBpedia Archivo - Call to improve the web of ontologies


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Date: Monday, 7 December 2020 at 01:20:32 UTC-8
Subject: [ANN] DBpedia Archivo - Call to improve the web of ontologies
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Apologies

for cross-posting


Dear

all,

We

are proud to announce DBpedia Archivo (https://archivo.dbpedia.org<https://urldefense.us/v3/__https:/archivo.dbpedia.org__;!!PvBDto6Hs4WbVuu7!cEXiVD_NNxA95aIfjV46e-x-SCM1Qn7K9kAX1JlTHZyBbtzbquwUROCcJxmagfyx2Hp1d_7JHjj1$>)

an augmented ontology archive and interface to implement FAIRer ontologies. Each ontology is rated with 4 stars measuring basic FAIR features. We discovered 890 ontologies reaching on average 1.95 out of 4 stars. Many of them have no or unclear licenses and

have issues w.r.t. retrieval and parsing.


#

Community action on individual ontologies


We

would like to call on all ontology maintainers and consumers to help us increase the average star rating of the web of ontologies by fixing and improving its ontologies. You can easily check an ontology at

https://archivo.dbpedia.org/info<https://urldefense.us/v3/__https:/archivo.dbpedia.org/info__;!!PvBDto6Hs4WbVuu7!cEXiVD_NNxA95aIfjV46e-x-SCM1Qn7K9kAX1JlTHZyBbtzbquwUROCcJxmagfyx2Hp1d4xuOeEW$>.

If you are an ontology maintainer just release a patched version - archivo will automatically pick it up 8 hours later. If you are a user of an ontology and want your consumed data to become FAIRer, please inform the ontology maintainer about the issues found

with Archivo.


The

star rating is very basic and only requires fixing small things. However, the

impact on technical and legal usability can be immense.


#

Community action on all ontologies (quality, FAIRness, conformity)


Archivo

is extensible and allows contributions to give consumers a central place to encode their requirements.

We envision fostering adherence

to standards and strengthening incentives for publishers to build a better (FAIRer) web of ontologies.

1.

2.

3.    SHACL (https://www.w3.org/TR/shacl/<https://urldefense.us/v3/__https:/www.w3.org/TR/shacl/__;!!PvBDto6Hs4WbVuu7!cEXiVD_NNxA95aIfjV46e-x-SCM1Qn7K9kAX1JlTHZyBbtzbquwUROCcJxmagfyx2Hp1d0u_35Se$>,

4.     co-edited by DBpedia’s CTO D. Kontokostas) enables easy testing of ontologies. Archivo offers free SHACL continuous integration testing for ontologies. Anyone can implement their SHACL tests and add them to the SHACL library on Github. We believe that there

5.     are many synergies, i.e. SHACL tests for your ontology are helpful for others as well.
6.
7.

8.

9.    We are looking for ontology experts

10.   to join DBpedia and discuss further validation (e.g. stars) to increase FAIRness and quality of ontologies. We are forming a steering committee and also a PC for the upcoming Vocarnival at SEMANTiCS 2021. Please message

11.  hell... at informatik.uni-leipzig.de

12.   if you would like to join. We would like to extend the Archivo platform with relevant visualisations, tests, editing aides, mapping management tools and quality checks.
13.


#

How does Archivo work?


Each

week Archivo runs several discovery algorithms to scan for new ontologies. Once discovered Archivo checks them every 8 hours. When changes are detected, Archivo downloads and rates and archives the latest snapshot persistently on the DBpedia Databus.


#

Archivo's mission


Archivo's

mission is to improve FAIRness (findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability) of all available ontologies on the Semantic Web. Archivo is not a guideline, it is fully automated, machine-readable and enforces interoperability with its star

rating.


-

Ontology developers can implement against Archivo until they reach more stars. The stars and tests are designed to guarantee the interoperability and fitness of the ontology.

-

Ontology users can better find, access and re-use ontologies. Snapshots are persisted in case the original is not reachable anymore adding a layer of reliability to the decentral web of ontologies.


Let’s

all join together to make the web of ontologies more reliable and stable,


Johannes

Frey, Denis Streitmatter, Fabian Götz, Sebastian Hellmann and Natanael Arndt

Paper:

https://svn.aksw.org/papers/2020/semantics_archivo/public.pdf<https://urldefense.us/v3/__https:/svn.aksw.org/papers/2020/semantics_archivo/public.pdf__;!!PvBDto6Hs4WbVuu7!cEXiVD_NNxA95aIfjV46e-x-SCM1Qn7K9kAX1JlTHZyBbtzbquwUROCcJxmagfyx2Hp1dy_cFKld$>
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