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Glossary

Vocabulary

On the Semantic Web, vocabularies define the concepts and relationships (also referred to as “terms”) used to describe and represent an area of concern.

practice, vocabularies can be very complex (with several thousands of terms) or very simple (describing one or two concepts only). There is no clear division between what is referred to as “vocabularies” and “ontologies”. The trend is to use the word “ontology” for more complex, and possibly quite formal collection of terms, whereas “vocabulary” is used when such strict formalism is not necessarily used or only in a very loose sense. Vocabularies are the basic building blocks for inference techniques on the Semantic Web. Core vocabularies refer to the vocabularies developed in the context of the ISA programme: person, business, location and public service

Source: World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

ELISE Resources: Study on RDF & PIDs for INSPIRE: State-of-Play