1. About versioning ontologies or any digital objects with clear semantics
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Jonquet, Clement, Poveda-Villalon, María, WEB Architecture x Semantic WEB x WEB of Data (WEB3), Laboratoire d'Informatique de Robotique et de Microélectronique de Montpellier (LIRMM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Montpellier (UM), Mathématiques, Informatique et STatistique pour l'Environnement et l'Agronomie (MISTEA), Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Institut Agro Montpellier, Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), COGITO project (grant # 958310), Leyla Jael Castro, Sonja Schimmler, Jens Dierkes, Danilo Dessì, Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann, ANR-18-CE23-0017,D2KAB,Des Données aux Connaissances en Agronomie et Biodiversité(2018), and European Project: 101057344,FAIR-IMPACT
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versioning ,ontologies ,semantic artefacts ,metadata ,[INFO.INFO-WB]Computer Science [cs]/Web ,[INFO]Computer Science [cs] ,[INFO.INFO-AI]Computer Science [cs]/Artificial Intelligence [cs.AI] - Abstract
International audience; The article discusses the process of versioning for ontologies and semantic artefacts developed using Semantic Web technologies. We describe methods for encoding versioning and other relevant information in metadata properties and we illustrate with examples from the MOD2.0 specification. Building on our experiences with the AgroPortal ontology repository and the Linked Open Vocabulary, we raise several questions, such as which metadata properties to use, how metadata values should be coordinated, and what stay the same over versions, and what should change. We propose recommendations for better versioning ontologies with clear semantics-identifiers, descriptions, status, dates, links-and suggests that the recommendations can be generalized to any digital objects that need to be versioned and semantically described.
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- 2023