SCOT will be changed. Give your feedback!

John, Sungkwon and I have talked many times to improve SCOT ontology. There are several tag ontologies such as Tag Ontology, MOAT, and even Gruber’s Conceptual Model.

We need to provide a method for interlinking among the existing tag ontologies and also to consider overall pictures for linking among existing RDF vocabularies such as SIOC, FOAF, SKOS, etc. Although we didn’t finish this work at this moment, we would like to give some idea for discussion.

1. Relationship between Tag Ontology and SCOT

Currently, we don’t provide a method to describe individual tagging activity consisted of a user, tags, a resource, and date. The Tag ontology already supports it. So it would be better to use the classes and properties of Tag Ontology. The change is that scot:Tagcloud connects to tags:Tagging class with scot:taggingActivity and also scot:Tag is subclass of tags:Tag.

Relationships between Tag Ontology and SCOT

2. We will change two properties scot:taggedItem (subproperty of tags:taggedResource and scot:tagUsed (subproperty of tags:associatedTag).

scot properties for tagging

3. The following picture illustrates simplified view of SCOT vocabularies.

simplified SCOT

4. We will change the properties associated with scot:Tagcloud and scot:Tag.

Tagcloud class
Tagcloud class

Tag class
Tag class

Cooccurrence class
Cooccurrence class

We are happy to hear any comments and feedbacks.
updated: March 7, 2008.

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SCOT on OpenLink

SCOT used in the OpenLink system. More details see New Features in OpenLink Data Spaces.

@From Kingsley’s comment. It’s so good example to use SCOT and other RDF vocabularies. See OpenLink RDF Browser:

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