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

[Brandon Whitehead]

Has anyone added SWEET yet?
/Brandon

On Wed, 2020-12-09 at 23:57 +0000, Mcgibbney, Lewis J (172B) via Esip-
semantictech wrote:
> 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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> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: pr-aksw <Unknown>
> Date: Monday, 7 December 2020 at 01:20:32 UTC-8
> Subject: [ANN] DBpedia Archivo - Call to improve the web of
> ontologies
> To: ontolo... at googlegroups.com <Unknown>
>
>
>
> Apologies
> for cross-posting
>
> Dear
> all,
> We
> are proud to announce DBpedia Archivo (https://archivo.dbpedia.org)
> 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.
> 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/,
> 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

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