most recent 30 from http://www.semanticoverflow.com 2010-07-31T08:20:32Z http://www.semanticoverflow.com/feeds/question/336 http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/rdf http://www.semanticoverflow.com/questions/336/what-is-a-convenient-method-of-shopping-for-rdfs-owl-vocabularies Dorian Taylor 2009-11-24T05:57:54Z 2010-05-27T10:30:15Z

<p>I'm still mostly using Google searches, <a href="http://schemaweb.info/" rel="nofollow">http://schemaweb.info/</a> and random serendipity to discover RDFS and/or OWL vocabularies. I can only imagine there is a more effective, more systematic way of doing it. Anyone?</p> <p>Thanks in advance!</p>

http://www.semanticoverflow.com/questions/336/what-is-a-convenient-method-of-shopping-for-rdfs-owl-vocabularies/337#337 Andrew Matthews 2009-11-24T06:12:57Z 2009-11-24T06:12:57Z

<p>Have you tried swoogle (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swoogle" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swoogle</a>) ?</p>

http://www.semanticoverflow.com/questions/336/what-is-a-convenient-method-of-shopping-for-rdfs-owl-vocabularies/338#338 Jiří Procházka 2009-11-24T07:04:49Z 2009-11-24T07:04:49Z

<p>There is a page for it on <a href="http://esw.w3.org/topic/VocabularyMarket" rel="nofollow">ESW wiki</a>.</p>

http://www.semanticoverflow.com/questions/336/what-is-a-convenient-method-of-shopping-for-rdfs-owl-vocabularies/341#341 Thomas Kappler 2009-11-24T09:28:07Z 2009-11-24T09:28:07Z

<p>In case you didn't know it, you can restrict Google results to a particular file type: "filetype:owl".</p>

http://www.semanticoverflow.com/questions/336/what-is-a-convenient-method-of-shopping-for-rdfs-owl-vocabularies/342#342 billroberts 2009-11-24T09:30:23Z 2009-11-24T09:30:23Z

<p>I'm not sure that there is a better, more systematic way of doing it, though I agree there should be!</p> <p>I have found this list useful: <a href="http://semanticweb.org/wiki/Ontologies" rel="nofollow">http://semanticweb.org/wiki/Ontologies</a></p>

http://www.semanticoverflow.com/questions/336/what-is-a-convenient-method-of-shopping-for-rdfs-owl-vocabularies/344#344 kwijibo 2009-11-24T10:18:46Z 2009-11-24T10:18:46Z

<p>I built <a href="http://schemacache.com" rel="nofollow">http://schemacache.com</a>, though to be honest, it is not yet as good as I would like it to be.</p> <p>The SPARQL endpoint for it however, may be of interest for those precise queries.</p> <p>The data is all in a Talis store <a href="http://api.talis.com/stores/schema-cache" rel="nofollow">http://api.talis.com/stores/schema-cache</a> (the API is documented at <a href="http://n2.talis.com" rel="nofollow">http://n2.talis.com</a> )</p> <p>So if anyone wants to build an alternate front-end, please feel free!</p>

http://www.semanticoverflow.com/questions/336/what-is-a-convenient-method-of-shopping-for-rdfs-owl-vocabularies/347#347 Simon Twigger 2009-11-24T15:43:42Z 2009-11-24T15:43:42Z

<p>If you are looking in the Biomedical domain there is the Bioportal (<a href="http://bioportal.bioontology.org/" rel="nofollow">http://bioportal.bioontology.org/</a>) maintained by the National Center for Biomedical Ontology (<a href="http://www.bioontology.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.bioontology.org/</a>) which allows you find, browse vocabularies. They have links to the originating websites where you can download many of these vocabularies.</p>

http://www.semanticoverflow.com/questions/336/what-is-a-convenient-method-of-shopping-for-rdfs-owl-vocabularies/908#908 cygri 2010-05-20T15:09:17Z 2010-05-20T15:09:17Z

<p>In addition to kwijibo's <a href="http://schemacache.com/" rel="nofollow">Schema Cache</a>, I find <a href="http://iws.seu.edu.cn/services/falcons/conceptsearch/index.jsp" rel="nofollow">Falcons Concept Search</a> very useful to look around for terms.</p> <p>But the best approach is still to rely on the community's experience, for example by asking on <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-lod/" rel="nofollow">public-lod</a> or here on SemanticOverflow :-)</p>

http://www.semanticoverflow.com/questions/336/what-is-a-convenient-method-of-shopping-for-rdfs-owl-vocabularies/910#910 Ian Davis 2010-05-21T18:48:01Z 2010-05-21T18:48:01Z

<p>I created <a href="http://schemapedia.com" rel="nofollow">Schemapedia</a> to help people find vocabularies and schemas.</p>

http://www.semanticoverflow.com/questions/336/what-is-a-convenient-method-of-shopping-for-rdfs-owl-vocabularies/923#923 Nico Adams 2010-05-27T10:30:15Z 2010-05-27T10:30:15Z

<p>The University of Manchester maintains the <a href="http://owl.cs.manchester.ac.uk/repository/" rel="nofollow">TONES Repository</a>,as a central location for ontologies. However, I agree with the first poster that a Google search, particularly when using something like filetype:.owl or filetype:.obo often yields quite good results.</p> <p>A more interesting question, by the way, would be not only how to find ontologies, but also how actively the ontology is used, whether it is being developed, has issue trachers etc is. I am not sure, that many people want to build software on, for example, the now dead results of a Master's thesis from a couple of years ago. The semantic web community/ontology community needs mechanisms to address this.....the bioontologies people already have gone some way towards providing solutions.</p>