- From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:29:06 -0500
- To: David Baxter <retxabd@gmail.com>
- CC: Christoph LANGE <ch.lange@jacobs-university.de>, Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>, Linked Data community <public-lod@w3.org>
David Baxter wrote:
> OpenCyc has colors represented as owl classes, e.g. "red
> <http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4r0L_kLnS6EdaAAACgyZzFrg>" is the
> class of all things that are red. All colors are instances of the
> second-order class color
> <http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rr19QJHStEdaAAACgyZzFrg>.
>
> David Baxter
>
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:39 AM, Christoph LANGE
> <ch.lange@jacobs-university.de <mailto:ch.lange@jacobs-university.de>>
> wrote:
>
> 2010-02-24 08:31 Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us <mailto:phayes@ihmc.us>>:
> > Does anyone know of URIs which identify colors? Umbel has the
> general
> > notion of Color, but I want the actual colors, like, you know, red,
> > white, blue and yellow. I can make up my own, but would rather use
> > some already out there, if they exist.
>
> Do you really need URIs? I.e. do you want to add further
> descriptions or
> links to colors, such as "color1 is nicer than color2", or "color
> can be
> produced from material" – or do you just want to point to colors
> ("thing has
> color")? In the latter case, wouldn't literals with datatypes be
> sufficient?
> For literals, there is at least a standard for RGB colors:
> #RRGGBB. Still,
> here it's the standard _datatype_ that's missing.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Christoph
>
> --
> Christoph Lange, Jacobs Univ. Bremen, http://kwarc.info/clange,
> Skype duke4701
>
>
See:
http://linkeddata.uriburner.com/about/html/http/sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4r0L_kLnS6EdaAAACgyZzFrg
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Received on Wednesday, 24 February 2010 14:29:38 UTC