How do we include domain name in our LOD?

[matt-wallis]

Sometimes, we may want to explicitly include domain name in a dataset, as distinct from website/homepage. This may be true for the dotcoop dataset.

Which ontology/vocab/predicate should we use?

[joebillings]

I think we should be considering the domains owned by coops as assets. We could either add this to our version of ESSGlobal or use the Organization vocab in its hierarchy.

[sunnydean]

We should drop an email to Joe

[wu-lee]

Searching the web finds this, which I've not yet read in detail:

• https://www.researchgate.net/publication/4174836_Developing_an_Ontology_for_the_Domain_Name_System

[wu-lee]

More:

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16366904/rdf-vocabulary-for-describing-uri-components

Which links to:

• https://www.w3.org/wiki/URI
• http://uri4uri.net/ (a ha-ha-only-serious April Fools joke)
• http://code.google.com/p/court/wiki/COIN (defunct, see archive.org)

[wu-lee]

The DNS ontology schema was published here, but that domain no longer exists, and isn't cached on the Wayback archive:

http://www.dhpc.adelaide.edu.au/ontologies/dns.html

However, I found a search engine for ontologies:

http://lov.okfn.org/dataset/lov/

Which finds the uri4uri and another, proton. Possibly we could use one of these terms:

http://uri4uri.net/domain (nice insider joke on the 404s on this site)

Or:

http://www.ontotext.com/proton/protonext.html#InternetDomain

Alternatively we could email the authors 1 and 2 for the schema information.

However, since "Internet Domain" seems to exist in several ontologies on LOV (see above) I also wonder if the right thing is to invent our own vocab and allow other people to map that to their own as necessary.