Hi All,
You are cordially invited to comment or participate in the
UMBEL (Upper
Mapping and Binding Exchange Layer) project.
UMBEL is a lightweight way to describe the subject(s) of Web
content,
akin to the relationship "isAbout". It is meant to
work universally with
HTML, tagging, microformats or other standard practices,
including
various RDF schemas and more formal ontologies. Its
reference subject
'backbone' is derived from the intersection of common
subjects found on
popularly used Web sites and other accepted subject
references.
UMBEL is very simple with few ambitions. It is merely a
reference 'bag
of subjects' to help relate Web data sets to one another.
UMBEL makes no presumptions to replace formal domain or
upper
ontologies, has little or no inferential power, and makes no
assumptions
about the means to describe or serialize the underlying
data. UMBEL is
meant to work with data sets ranging from RSS and Atom feeds
to tagging,
microformats, RDF, existing schema and other data and
metadata models.
UMBEL's development is being backed by a number of leading
open data
efforts and entities.
In addition to its core reference subjects, the UMBEL
project will be
providing look up, query, registration, pinging, and related
services.
The project is completely open under a community process
with all
products available via Creative Commons licenses.
The initial project site is at http://www.umbel.org,
including an
introduction (http://www.umbel.org
/intro.xhtml) (the best place to
start!) and the draft project specification
(http://www.umbel.
org/proposal.xhtml).
A mailing list you can monitor or join is at
http:/
/groups.google.com/group/umbel-ontology.
We welcome and invite your participation!
Best regards,
Mike Bergman
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Please accept apologies in advance if you receive duplicate
announcements; this was posted to a few appropriate mailing
lists.
In future, all announcements will be made directly from the
UMBEL Web site.
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