| Name | URL | Comments |
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| Schema.org | http://schema.org | - sponsored by several bug companies
- project to generate free general-purpose vocabularies
- bad description of the ontology
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| Dublin Core | http://dublincore.org/ | - schema for describing documents and web-resources (not their content)
- used by some OS/Linux projects
- http://purl.org/dc/terms
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| FOAF (Friend of a Friend) | http://xmlns.com/foaf/spec/ | - schema for describing relations among persons
- widely used
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| SIOC | http://rdfs.org/sioc/spec/ | - schema for describing online communities
- widely used
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| DOAP | https://github.com/ewilderj/doap/wiki | - coolest name ever
- schema for describing software projects and their dependencies
- for data exchange between software directories
- for automatic configuration for resources such as shared CVS repositories or bug trackers
- assisting package maintainers who bundle software for distributors
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LOM (IEEE Standard for Learning Object Metadata) | https://standards.ieee.org/findstds/standard/1484.12.1-2002.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_object_metadata | - heiracrhical schema for describing learning objects to assist with searching, and sharing.
- based on Dublin Core and used in SCROM
- includes information on the licence, language, topic etc
- has been used in recent OER projects eg http://portal.opendiscoveryspace.eu/
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