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Commenting on my own post…
Over the last few days there has been a useful thread on tools for/approaches to the discovery of RDF vocabularies on the W3C public-lod list, starting here
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-lod/2011Mar/0068.html
A couple of people there mentioned a service called Falcons
http://ws.nju.edu.cn/falcons/ontologysearch/index.jsp
which I don’t think I’d come across before, and which looks useful for searching for terms.
[...] And that process of aggregation may go beyond simply collecting and merging data from distributed sources. We might perform some simple inferencing to generate some additional triples to simplify querying. That might be the simple “materialization” of triples based on RDF Schema/OWL semantics, or it might be some more complex rules-based processing, say, to expand a simple statement of a life date into the sort of event-centric form I described here. [...]