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by riku_iki 948 days ago
> co-maintain them in separate ontology documents, though in practice this doesn't happen nowadays due to lack in ontology engineering tooling.

there are multiple efforts to build some core standard ontologies (e.g. schema.org) which then can be used as common vocabulary.
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hobofan 948 days ago
And for good reason they don't gain widespread adoption. E.g. schema.org is barely used outside of making your website better scrapeable for Google - it is an (indirect) Google project after all.

The only "core" ontologies that have really found adoption over the decades are the ones that everyone is forced to use as they are baked into the standards (RDF/RDFS), and Dublin Core for metadata (where only 5 of the ~100 terms are commonly used).

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riku_iki 948 days ago
it could be because all that rdf stuff didn't get strong adaptation, so no interest to build common core ontologies outside specific niches.
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