{"id":13,"date":"2013-07-23T18:28:02","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T18:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ontsandquants.com\/wp\/?p=13"},"modified":"2020-04-13T18:55:09","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T18:55:09","slug":"rdf-data-cube-vocabulary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ontsandquants.com\/wp\/?p=13","title":{"rendered":"RDF Data Cube Vocabulary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About a month ago the W3C issued a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/2013\/CR-vocab-data-cube-20130625\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">candidate recommendation<\/a> for a Data Cube Vocabulary. &nbsp;The idea is to provide a semantic description for data and summary statistics for the facilitation of linked science. &nbsp;The notion of a Data Cube is described in the <a href=\"http:\/\/sdmx.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Statistical Data and Metadata eXchange<\/a>&nbsp;initiative. &nbsp;A data frame in R provides an example of a Data Cube description. &nbsp;What the W3C RDF vocabulary will provide is a semantic way to capture Data Cubes and to link descriptive elements to concepts in other ontologies. &nbsp;I will not be surprised if someone develops a package for R that would allow it to read\/write RDF Data Cube descriptions.<\/p>\n<p>Three years ago I was the lead ontology engineer for the development of <a title=\"Cyber Scientific Test Language\" href=\"http:\/\/iswc2011.semanticweb.org\/fileadmin\/iswc\/Papers\/In-Use\/70320097.pdf\">Cyber Scientific Test Language<\/a>&nbsp;for the National Cyber Range. &nbsp;The purpose of CSTL was to describe the elements of cyber experiments, including experiment design and methodology and a comprehensive description of the system under test and testbed. &nbsp;One of the ontologies in the CSTL library was the Design of Experiments Ontology, which provided an OWL representation for statistical hypothesis testing and analysis. &nbsp;If the Data Cube vocabulary had been available back then I would have gladly used it as a starting point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a month ago the W3C issued a candidate recommendation for a Data Cube Vocabulary. &nbsp;The idea is to provide a semantic description for data and summary statistics for the facilitation of linked science. &nbsp;The notion of a Data Cube is described in the Statistical Data and Metadata eXchange&nbsp;initiative. &nbsp;A data frame in R provides &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/ontsandquants.com\/wp\/?p=13\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">RDF Data Cube Vocabulary<\/span>Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ontsandquants.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ontsandquants.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ontsandquants.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ontsandquants.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ontsandquants.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/ontsandquants.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85,"href":"http:\/\/ontsandquants.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ontsandquants.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ontsandquants.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ontsandquants.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}