Getting Started with the Semantic Web - slide "Developing Ontologies"

try to re-use what's already there
- less effort
- promotes interoperability
candidates for reuse
- ontologies
  - Dublin Core for publications
  - Friend-of-a-Friend or vCard for people
  - DAML-Time
  - DAML-Spatial (upcoming)
  - others in DAML Ontology Library
- data
  - countries
  - others in DAML Data Sources