RDFa

Over at WebBackplane, Mark Birbeck describes how the UK’s Central Office of Information has been generating RDF vocabularies via an open-source process, and then using those vocabularies to decorate their web pages. The blog demonstrates how they are being used to mark up job vacancies, and then how that information can be reliably scraped. Read more.

Another example of using the same jobs vocabulary is at Jobsgopublic.

Manuela Gastmeyer and Joachim Neubert of the German National Library of Economics (ZBW) announced:

STW Thesaurus for Economics is now available under http://zbw.eu/stw.

STW is a richly interconnected vocabulary in English and German on economics and business economics as well as some related subject areas. It includes subject categories and lots of synonyms in order to find the appropriate terms. Its publication aims at providing an interlinking hub for economics resources on the web of Linked Data.

The thesaurus is maintained by the German National Library of Economics (ZBW) and published under a Creative Commons (by-nc-sa) license.

It is delivered as XHTML+RDFa pages with an incremental search interface and a navigatable tree. A SKOS RDF/XML dump version can be downloaded, as well as a set of links to dbpedia concepts. More information about the design of the application can be found in a paper for the “Linked Data on the Web” workshop in Madrid.