argot-hub is the home of a collection of vocabularies or word-bundles (an argot), that can be used to describe data. The range of argots is wide, and they can either be used on their own, or with others.
This flexibility is possible because the core technology on which an argot is built is RDF.
Unlike traditional argots, our argots aim to make information available to everyone.
Discussion about any of the vocabularies here, takes place on the Argot Hub Google Group.
Approach
Bundles
Whilst it might often appear that we need a specific set of terms that are applicable to one particular task, when it comes to organising these terms it is much more useful to create small bundles that can be reused in many places.
For example, to describe a job vacancy we will often need to describe an organisation that will be the employer. But when it comes to creating terms for a consultation we also need to indicate an organisation. It obviously makes sense for the terminology to be consistent, so that any vocabulary that needs to refer to organisations can use the same terms. And for this reason we create an organisation 'bundle' that can be reused inside other 'bundles'.
Reuse
As far as possible the terms used in a bundle should come from existing vocabularies. For example, if we need to indicate the start and end dates for a consultation, we use the appropriate Dublin Core terms. Similarly the title of a consultation or job vacancy description can be provided by the Dublin Core title property.
An argot is therefore a collection of terms for a particular use, but those terms could be drawn from a variety of vocabularies.
Current bundles
The current list of bundles is
