From 1ff6861f90d04eed95e3dee9537df518dea290d6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Konrad Abicht Date: Mon, 20 May 2024 14:01:03 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] README: small refinements (total amount, some spelling) --- README.md | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 0be0eac..2521db0 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ The Global Ontology and Vocabulary Index (GOVI) is meant to be a Community-driven project to maintain an index of all available RDF ontologies and vocabularies. The index is basically a big file ([CSV](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values), [JSON Lines](https://jsonlines.org/), ...), containing a list of URLs to ontologies and vocabularies, plus a few meta data (such as authors, license information and latest modification date). +Index contains **3280** ontologies and vocabularies currently. + --- ## Overview @@ -58,8 +60,8 @@ Services such as BioPortal and DBpedia Archivo play an important role for the co This project is **not** meant to replace them, on the contrary, we support services like [DBpedia Archivo](https://archivo.dbpedia.org/) because they address important challenges like link rot and inconsistent versioning. But they all have some relevante limitations. -Portals such as BioPortal are also important because of their user-friendly approach (e.g. browsing class hierarchies, searching, etc.). -But portals often provide ontologies as a data dump or SPARQL endpoint instead of a dereferenceable URL (for accessing the RDF/OWL code). +Portals such as BioPortal are important because of their user-friendly approach (e.g. browsing class hierarchies, searching, etc.). +But they often provide ontologies as a data dump or SPARQL endpoint instead of a dereferenceable URL (for accessing the RDF/OWL code). As long as the portal is online, everything is fine, but as soon as it goes offline, all ontologies/vocabularies are gone unless there is a copy somewhere else. One disadvantage of DBpedia is the fact that only the ontology file provided is evaluated.