Ontology Up

Finally the first version of my 'cultural projects' ontology is live:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16463134/LOD/cultural-project.rdf

I've used the ontology to describe Landscape-portrait using this rdf file:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16463134/LOD/lp-rbl.rdf

the participants:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16463134/LOD/participant.rdf

and the videos the participants created:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16463134/LOD/video_1.rdf

So far I have only included one participant and one set of videos, but I'll update this over the next weeks to include a selection of participants from Bournemouth. Within the ontology as well as a 'participant' class or concept there is also class's of collaborators, which are defined differently to participants, or to use LOD semantic are a disjoint with 'participant', that is one person cannot be both. I'll add the collaborators over the next few weeks.

It was really important that the concepts or classes tally with the written research, so we have a class 'project' of which 'Community_Art_Project' is a subclass, and each project has a property of 'hasResource' and participant and collaborator class has the property of 'IsParticipantIn' and 'IsCollaboratorIn' respectively.

In terms of tools I have been using Protege which was recommended by Richard Light, who has been a massive help in guiding me in this work. Also been using http://swoogle.umbc.edu/
to locate existing ontologies.

RDF/RDFa/DataDump/Ontologies

Working through the different options I am now thinking to make either a RDF file, or include a RDFa snippet into the web page. Problem is that the Landscape-Portrait site is dynamically generated and there is not page that explicitly contains the video elements. Therefore we might create RDF pages for each postcode, an include all the portraits that relate to the postcode. What is also of interest is the idea that I might create (how do you create) a ontology to describe community artworks, this might include all differences of method and methodology.

Alongside all of this will be a data-dump of the metadata of Landscape-Portrait, so other users can download and make use of it.