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There’s a tension between being semantically rich (using your own terms and definitions), and being semantically aligned, in which you try to reuse terms from other vocabularies.

I think we need a new concept: eventual #interoperability. I propose to start rich with your own vocabularies, and only make alignments when there’s a concrete reason for building those.

https://pietercolpaert.be/interoperability/2026/01/08/eventual-interoperability

#knowledgegraphs #apis #linkeddata #semantics

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Ben Companjen 🟥Jan 9

@pietercolpaert if you want your data to be reused, it is a good idea to think about how your data should be interpreted from the start. That means using multiple vocabularies to cover multiple viewpoints, because mapping in retrospect is very difficult.
This was the main point of a presentation about FAIR research data. Let me find the details.

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Pieter Colpaert Jan 9

@bencomp yes, so multiple aligned views on the same source semantically rich data. Eventual interoperability is not in contradiction with that idea, it just proposes to do one after the other to make that idea way more effective