This page references vocabularies that are widely used, and that are likely to cover some aspects of your app:
- Common vocabularies are all-purpose vocabularies solving everyday life issues (for app development)
- Technical vocabularies are vocabularies describing technical entities: HTTP messages, RSS feeds…
- Core vocabularies are vocabularies used to build vocabularies.
- Solid vocabularies are vocabularies present in the Solid standard.
Vocabularies solving common issues
These vocabularies have a general community support, and they address issues that are horizontal to many applications.
| Frequently Asked Questions | Relevant vocabularies |
|---|---|
| I want to talk about social interaction | as |
| I want to talk about licenses | cc |
| I want to talk about documents’ metadata (author, title, etc.) | dc elements and terms |
| I want to talk about events | as, ical |
| I want to talk about people, communities and organizations | foaf, vcard, sioc |
| I want to talk about places | geonames, wgs84 |
| I want to describe an online meeting | meeting |
| I want to talk about music | mo |
| I want to describe things that are usually found on web pages | schema |
| I want to talk about time and timezones | time, tzont |
| I want to track issues and log events | rlog, wf |
Vocabularies describing technical elements
These vocabularies are tied to technical standard.
| Described element | Vocabulary |
|---|---|
| X509 Certificates | cert |
| HTTP messages | http |
| HTTP headers | httph |
| Linked Data Platform | ldp |
| RSS feeds | rss |
| XML Schema | xsd |
Core vocabularies
These vocabularies are used as building blocks to make the others.
Vocabularies essential to Solid
These vocabularies are the ones featured in the Solid standard.
- Access Control List (acl)
- Linked Data Platform (ldp)
- Media types (mime)
- Solid terms
- Workspace
- POSIX stat
- User Interface (ui)
Your application requires a vocabulary that you did not find on this page? Maybe it’s out there somewhere. Next, we see how to discover vocabularies.