OWL file to describe entire opengov ontology

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International legislative data specifications

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OWL file to describe entire opengov ontology #128

Open joepio opened 7 years ago

joepio commented 7 years ago

The Web Ontology Language (OWL) is a w3c standard for formally describing the structure of knowledge for a particular domain.

Having a .owl file has a couple of advantages:

Documentation can be generated from the model. This could be used on the (currently non-existing) namespace page which the class and property IRI's direct to.
Translations could easily be included in the ontology, which could increase adoption.
It can be imported by others who want to extend or modify the popolo ontology for own use.
It can generate JSON-LD context files.
It serves as a clear, single source of truth.

I'd like to help create this. If I were to create an ontology that describes all of Popolo, would that be accepted in a pull request?

jpmckinney commented 7 years ago

Yes, certainly! Thanks for volunteering to do this, @joepsz

DieterDePaepe commented 7 years ago

@joepsz - great suggestion! Have you made any progress already for this? I'm assisting the Flemish government on a project that might use this ontology, so we'll be sure to provide feedback if this gets released on time.

joepio commented 7 years ago

Working on it on a fork of this repo.

Cool to hear that the Flemish government might want to use this, @DieterDePaepe. I wasn't able to convince the Dutch Parliament to fully embrace popolo.

When making the ontology, I try to follow the documentation as close as possible, so don't expect any surprises in the ontology. However, I made it a bit more restrictive. For example, anything that should have a date string needs to be an xsd:dateTime, and a submitter prop needs to be of the type foaf:agent.

akuckartz commented 6 years ago

@joepio Thanks for working on this. If not yet done so consider joining https://www.w3.org/community/opengov/ That CG is currently not really active but that might change at any moment as a critical mass for Linked Data seems to exist now in this section of the Open Data world. Some of these issues might also be interesting to work on: https://github.com/OpenGovLD/specs/issues