Re: Subsetting data

Thats fine - but the issue for these being useful is the ability to link
them with some useful semantics - isPartOf is not generally going to be
useful for any processing.

You may want to state that whatever relationships that you do use should
have a owl:subPropertyOf dct:isPartOf  declaration
(i.e. this OWL model needs to be available - but not necessarily in the
relationship-definfing ontology artefact - i.e. we should be able to
retrofit it to existing vocabularies)
Then, within a domain that cares, these minimal OWL declarations can be
used to support useful integration.

The way I have used VoiD is to subClass VoiD:Dataset to define datasets
with specific properties - much like a VoiD:Linkset is a specialised
Dataset.  We dont have to specify VoiD - but I think its reasonable to ask
that if someone defines a subsetting semantics for a particular purpose
those semantics are published in OWL, and dereferencable via the link
property URI used.

 Is OWL and acceptable "Best practice" ?  I think there is an issue that
OWL is not heavily used to provide useful snippets to help link resources -
people want to remodel the world in OWL when these use it, not use it for
sharing models. If we cant use OWL as a canonical way of sharing the most
basic semantics here we really dont have much to work with, but IMHO we
could point to it as a best practice and at the same time recommend small
pieces of OWL are deployed to support specific interoperability
requirements - rather than attempt to model every possible aspect of
everything in a monolithic document.

Rob

On Wed, 6 Jan 2016 at 11:24 <Simon.Cox@csiro.au> wrote:

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> *From:* Annette Greiner
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 5 January 2016 10:40:13 PM
> *To:* Peter Baumann; Rob Atkinson; janowicz@ucsb.edu; Dan Brickley;
> Clemens Portele
> *Cc:* Phil Archer; Cox, Simon (L&W, Clayton); ericphb@gmail.com;
> jeremy.tandy@metoffice.gov.uk; koubarak@di.uoa.gr;
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> *Subject:* Re: Subsetting data
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> I would stop at saying URIs for subsets are a Good Thing, and maybe
> mention in the implementation section that they will naturally be assigned
> URIs if you use a REST-based architecture. What those URIs look like will
> depend on the implementation. (There's a difference between nobody knowing
> how to use them and the fact that different contexts call for different
> implementations, which I think is the case here.)
> -Annette
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> On 1/5/16 1:43 PM, Peter Baumann wrote:
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> +1
> -Peter
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> On 2016-01-05 22:18, Rob Atkinson wrote:
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> given stable URIs for subsets (which I don think there is any disagreement
> about) AFACIT there are two unresolved issues - both concerned with the
> scope of the BP:
> 1) What is the BP for describing how subsets relate to each other and the
> master data set (avoiding implementation details)
> 2) what is the relationship between identifiable subsets, query endpoints
> and the subsets returned - do they all have identifiers, and what is the BP
> for a common vocabulary to relate these different aspects
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> Maybe a valid result is to say that there really isnt a BP in term of
> these requirements - and stop at saying URI idenfiers for subsets is a Good
> Thing  Nobody Knows How To Use and throw out a challenge
>
> Rob
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> On Wed, 6 Jan 2016 at 05:13 Krzysztof Janowicz <janowicz@ucsb.edu> wrote:
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>> Hi Dan,
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>>
>> Isn't a "subset" just a query result, or which there are effectively an
>> unlimited number?
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>>
>> I would say so.
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>> Storing a query so it can be re-run against evolving data has value.
>> Having a URI for that, perhaps less so.
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>>
>> There are many cases, particularly if dealing with streams of data, e.g.,
>> form sensors, where having URIs for subsets is very useful, and, in fact,
>> there are many ways to do so. Some years ago we implemented one such
>> solution at 52North where we developed a transparent (i.e., invisible)
>> proxy on top of an endpoint that translates a URI minted in a specific way
>> to return specific query results.  For instance, the URI
>> <http://my.authority.org/observations/samplingtimes/ont:time:relation:between,2008-01-10T14:00,2008-01-12T16:00/sensors/thermometer1/observedproperties/temperature>
>> http://my.authority.org/observations/samplingtimes/ont:time:relation:between,2008-01-10T14:00,2008-01-12T16:00/sensors/thermometer1/observedproperties/temperature
>> points to the observation collection with all temperature observations from
>> January 10th 2008 at 2pm until January 12th at 4pm made by thermometer1.
>> Having such URIs (and proxies) is one way of mitigating the problem that
>> the content  referenced by URIs should be as stable as possible which is
>> (often) not the case for sensor data. In our case we worked on
>> transparently mapping between SPARQL and OGC's Sensor Observation Services
>> but the idea can (and has been) used in many other settings.
>>
>> Happy new year.
>> Krzysztof
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>>
>> On 12/31/2015 03:09 AM, Dan Brickley wrote:
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>>
>> Isn't a "subset" just a query result, or which there are effectively an
>> unlimited number?
>>
>> Storing a query so it can be re-run against evolving data has value.
>> Having a URI for that, perhaps less so.
>>
>> Dan
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>> On Thu, 31 Dec 2015, 08:14 Clemens Portele <
>> portele@interactive-instruments.de> wrote:
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>>> Rob,
>>>
>>> what you describe seems to apply to the dataset (resource) the same way
>>> it would apply to any subset resource. I.e. are you discussing a more
>>> general question, not the subsetting question?
>>>
>>> Phil,
>>>
>>> a (probably often unproblematic) restriction to the
>>> temperature/uk/london or stations/manchester approach is that there is only
>>> one path, so you end up with limitations on the subsets. If you want to
>>> support multiple subsets, e.g. also stations where high speed trains stop,
>>> stations that have a ticket shop, etc. then there are several issues with a
>>> /{dataset}/{subset}/…/{subset}/{object} approach. These include an unclear
>>> URI scheme ("manchester" and "eurostar" would be on the same path level),
>>> potential name collisions of subset names of different subsetting
>>> categories, and multiple URIs for the same feature/object.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Clemens
>>>
>>>
>>> On 31 Dec 2015, at 03:07, Rob Atkinson <rob@metalinkage.com.au> wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm not a strong set-theoretician - but it strikes me there are some
>>> tensions here:
>>>
>>> Does the identifier of a set mean that the members of that set are
>>> constant, known in advance and always retrievable?   Is a query endpoint a
>>> resource (does either URI or URL have meaning against a query that delivers
>>> real time data - including the use case of "at this point in time we think
>>> these things are members of this set?" )
>>>
>>> If the subset is the result of a query - and you care that it is the
>>> same subset another time you look at it - are you actually assigning an
>>> identifier to the artefact - which is the query response, whose properties
>>> include the original query, where it was made, and the time it was made?
>>>
>>> Can you define an ontology for terms like subset, query, response that
>>> you all agree on?
>>>
>>> I share Phil's implicit concern that subsetting by type with URI
>>> patterns may not be universally applicable - IMHO that equates to a
>>> "sub-register" pattern, where a set has its members defined by some
>>> identifiable process (indepent of any query functions available) - which
>>> may include explicit subsets - for example by object type, or delegated
>>> registration processes. That probably fits the UK implementation better
>>> than a query-defined subset.
>>>
>>> If subsets have some prior meaning - and a query is used to access then
>>> from a service endpint - then the query is a URL that needs to be bound to
>>> the object URI. AFAICT thats a very different thing to saying an arbitrary
>>> query result defines a subset of data.
>>>
>>> I think you may, in general, assign an ID to the artefact which is the
>>> result of a query at a given time, and if you want to make that into
>>> something with more semantics then you need make it into a new type of
>>> object which can be described in terms of what it means. I think currently
>>> the conversation is conflating these two perspectives of "subset".
>>>
>>> Cheers, and farewell to 2015.
>>> Rob Atkinson.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, 31 Dec 2015 at 08:26 < <Simon.Cox@csiro.au>Simon.Cox@csiro.au>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Another way of looking at it is that a query, encoded as a URI pattern,
>>>> defines an implicit set of potential URIs, each of which denotes a subset.
>>>>
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>>>> *From:* Phil Archer
>>>> *Sent:* Wednesday, 30 December 2015 6:31:16 PM
>>>> *To:* Manolis Koubarakis; ' <public-sdw-comments@w3.org>
>>>> public-sdw-comments@w3.org'; Annette Greiner; Eric Stephan; Tandy,
>>>> Jeremy; <public-dwbp-comments@w3.org>public-dwbp-comments@w3.org
>>>> *Subject:* Subsetting data
>>>>
>>>> At various times in recent months I have promised to look into the
>>>> topic
>>>> of persistent identifiers for subsets of data. This came up at the SDW
>>>> F2F in Sapporo but has also been raised by Annette in DWBP. In between
>>>> festive activities I've been giving this some thought and have tried to
>>>> begin to commit some ideas to a page [1].
>>>>
>>>> During the CEO-LD meeting, Jeremy pointed to OpenSearch as a possible
>>>> way forward, including its geo-temporal extensions defined by the OGC.
>>>> There is also the Linked Data API as a means of doing this, and what
>>>> they both have in common is that they offer an intermediate layer that
>>>> turns a URL into a query.
>>>>
>>>> How do you define a persistent identifier for a subset of a dataset?
>>>> IMO
>>>> you mint a URI and say "this identifies a subset of a dataset" - and
>>>> then provide a means of programmatically going from the URI to a query
>>>> that returns the subset. As long as you can replace the intermediate
>>>> layer with another one that also returns the same subset, we're done.
>>>>
>>>> The UK Government Linked Data examples tend to be along the lines of:
>>>>
>>>> http://transport.data.gov.uk/id/stations
>>>> returns a list of all stations in Britain.
>>>>
>>>> http://transport.data.gov.uk/id/stations/Manchester
>>>> returns a list of stations in Manchester
>>>>
>>>> http://transport.data.gov.uk/id/stations/Manchester/Piccadilly
>>>> identifies Manchester Piccadilly station.
>>>>
>>>> All of that data of course comes from a single dataset.
>>>>
>>>> Does this work in the real worlds of meteorology and UBL/PNNL?
>>>>
>>>> Phil.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> [1] <https://github.com/w3c/sdw/blob/gh-pages/subsetting/index.md>
>>>> https://github.com/w3c/sdw/blob/gh-pages/subsetting/index.md
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>
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