Introduction to VoMaG Outcomes of the TDWG Vocabulary
Management Task Group TDWG 2013 Annual Conference, Florence, Italy
amonn Tuama Senior Programme Officer for Interoperability Global
Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) 31 October 2013
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Established as task group under TDWG TAG, November 2012 Grew
from ViBRANT work package 4 Initial conveners: Dag Endresen and
amonn Tuama Co-opted Steve Baskauf (RDF/OWL Task Group) and Gregor
Hagedorn (Semantic MediaWiki) VoMaG history
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VoMaG communication platform on GBIF Community Site
http://community.gbif.org/pg/groups/21382/ VoMaG Charter outlines
strategy and goals http://community.gbif.org/pg/file/read/28812/
http://community.gbif.org/pg/file/read/28812/ VoMaG report
http://www.gbif.org/resources/2246 VoMaG process 49 members
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http://community.gbif.org/pg/groups/21382/
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Initial development on VoMaG Site Two rounds of review (within
group and public) VoMaG report delivered to TDWG on Sept 20 th Two
related sessions at TDWG organised VoMaG report
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Three main sections Status of the TDWG ontology Semantic
MediaWiki as a development platform Requirements for a framework
for managing vocabularies VoMaG report
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Agenda TimeTitle/Presenter 09.00 09.05 Introduction to VoMaG
amonn Tuama 09.05 09.20 The TDWG Ontologies Steve Baskauf 09.20
09.35 A framework for managing vocabularies Dag Endresen 09.35
09.45 Semantic MediaWiki - a community platform for vocabulary
development Gregor Hagedorn 09.45 09.55 Developing a vocabulary:
the SINP use case Julie Chataigner & Laurent Poncet 09.55 10.05
Modeling property values: Is SKOS part of the solution or part of
the problem? Robert A. Morris 10.05 10.30General discussion