New semantic artefacts can be built upon existing artefacts. In some cases reuse involves inclusion of elements of one artefact to another. This mechanism does not allow automatic access to reused elements and their containing semantic artefact. In order to be able track the element reused from other semantic artefacts, reference to third party semantic artefacts should be made explicit. For this, external semantic artefacts (in part or in full) should be imported using a specific metadata element to represent the import (e.g. ). When using such explicit references, it becomes possible to extract this dependency information automatically from the artefacts.
This recommendation emphasizes the need for the community of semantic web to define a common standard for referencing or importing external (third-party) semantic artefacts.
New semantic artefacts can be built upon existing artefacts. In some cases reuse involves inclusion of elements of one artefact to another. This mechanism does not allow automatic access to reused elements and their containing semantic artefact. In order to be able track the element reused from other semantic artefacts, reference to third party semantic artefacts should be made explicit. For this, external semantic artefacts (in part or in full) should be imported using a specific metadata element to represent the import (e.g.
This recommendation emphasizes the need for the community of semantic web to define a common standard for referencing or importing external (third-party) semantic artefacts.