Re: looking for an event ontology/vocabulary

Ryan,

Interesting work.

> Your feedback (even harsh criticism) is welcome!

So, I'm trying to check how linked dataish it is. First class I pick:

http://linkedevents.org/ontology/Event

and it 404s ...

Maybe fix that and then we continue?

Cheers,
      Michael

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> From: Ryan Shaw <ryanshaw@ischool.berkeley.edu>
> Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:38:48 -0700
> To: Linked Data community <public-lod@w3.org>
> Cc: Raphaël Troncy <Raphael.Troncy@cwi.nl>, Lynda Hardman
> <Lynda.Hardman@cwi.nl>
> Subject: Re: looking for an event ontology/vocabulary
> Resent-From: Linked Data community <public-lod@w3.org>
> Resent-Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:39:34 +0000
> 
> My colleagues Raphaël Troncy and Lynda Hardman and I have recently
> published an event ontology which is heavily based on Yves' event
> ontology but which tries to address some of the clarity issues that
> Pat has raised. You can find it at
> 
> http://linkedevents.org/ontology/
> 
> There is an accompanying tech report in which we discuss the modeling
> decisions we made and review a number of other ontologies covering
> events. Where possible we provide mappings between our properties and
> properties from these other ontologies in the ontology file at
> 
> http://linkedevents.org/ontology/2009-07-28/rdfxml
> 
> The tech report should be online next week (we're currently making
> some final revisions.
> 
> Our primary interest is in events as reported in news or represented
> in historical narrative, which is quite different from, e.g., a
> scientific notion of an event as a well-defined process or as part of
> a causal mechanism. I think there is probably room for several
> different event ontologies given the fuzziness of the concept and the
> different modes of understanding (i.e. science vs. history vs. law vs.
> "everyday" practical understanding). But we believe this one provides
> a useful balance between simplicity and clarity for the kind of use
> cases we have in mind.
> 
> There are a number of examples of events modeled using our vocabulary at
> 
> http://view.linkedevents.org/session/browse
> 
> Note that the dataset at the URL above also includes some events,
> specifically the Emma Goldman and Congressional Biography ones,
> modeled using other vocabularies which we have mapped to ours.
> 
> Your feedback (even harsh criticism) is welcome!
> 
> Cheers,
> Ryan Shaw
>

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