Knowing what RDFA vocabulary to use

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There are many vocabularies. And you could create your own, too, of course (but you probably shouldn’t before you checked possible alternatives).

You’d have to look for vocabularies for your specific needs, for example

  • by browsing and searching on http://lov.okfn.org/dataset/lov/ (they collect and index open vocabularies),

  • on W3C’s RDFa Core Initial Context (it lists vocabularies that have pre-defined prefixes for use with RDFa), or

  • by browsing through http://prefix.cc/ (it’s a lookup for typically used namespaces, but you might get an overview by that).

After some time you get to know the big/broad ones: Schema.org, Dublin Core, FOAF, RSS, SKOS, SIOC, vCard, DOAP, Open Graph, Ontology for Media Resources, GoodRelations, DBpedia Ontology, ….

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