Re: schema for 'Ethics'?

Dan

thanks for reply

The suggestion is based on  a technical requirement for an informtion
system -
I am working on research in technology ethics, and I need a set of metadata
to support it

A more general case for a public metadata schema for ethics is to support
the  knowledge representation and exchange for technology ethics in open
research

( I learned this from you  on one of these W3C lists a decade  or so
before? surely metadata is still useful even in today's corporate dominate
web?)

There are a lot of resources being developed and published online
(papers, etc) on various aspects of 'technology ethics'
and there is no metadata schema to label these resources,

There are also spurious metadata labels being used which add to the
confusion

The result is that there is a big mess, and no knowledge organisation
in this knowledge domain which is growing in importance and volume.

A schema for ethics precisely needed to address and disambiguate all those
levels and areas of concern

whether the existence of a schema would solve all the knowledge
representation challenges for this domain, I am not sure

 how schemas are used in the real world is another issue

but at least, there would be a shared mechanism for KO for those who may
wish to adopt it

I ll be happy if schema.org takes due note of my request as a technical
requirement, and will consider starting a schema accordingly when the need
for it becomes more obvious.

I have made a start on this  and happy to share my notes.

Cheers-

PDM



On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 9:56 AM, Dan Brickley <danbri@google.com> wrote:

> Ethical perspectives might guide schema design in many ways, but that does
> not mean we should have a single "schema for ethics".
>
> The considerations involved vary massively from case to case, e.g. compare
> the issues around describing datasets, statistical caveats and machine
> learning trained parameter sharing with those around declaring the codes of
> conduct for conferences, or reflecting existing e-commerce product
> metadata. My suggestion is to focus on particular practical issues; just as
> Schema.org doesn't really work from high level "upper ontologies", we ard
> unlikely to add an "ethics schema". But there are plenty of places where
> ethical considerations can lead to better designs.
>
> Dan
>
>
> On Thu, 31 May 2018, 20:51 Paola Di Maio, <paola.dimaio@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Greetings
>> I am developing knowledge representation  mechanism for the
>> domain 'ethics' (in relation to technology/AI ethics)
>>
>> I searched schema.org and see that ethic policy is mentioned in relation
>> to governance schemas
>> however I could not find a schema for ethics per se
>> and would find it useful to complement other work
>>
>> How do I go about starting a schema for ethics
>>
>> sorry if there are instructions somewhere which I did not find
>>
>> P
>>
>>
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>>
>>


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