- From: Raphaël Troncy <raphael.troncy@eurecom.fr>
- Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2017 15:14:18 +0200
- To: Joshua Lieberman <jlieberman@tumblingwalls.com>, Ed Parsons <eparsons@google.com>
- Cc: Rob Atkinson <rob@metalinkage.com.au>, Kerry Taylor <kerry.taylor@anu.edu.au>, Phil Archer <phila@w3.org>, Maxime Lefrançois <maxime.lefrancois@emse.fr>, "public-sdw-wg@w3.org" <public-sdw-wg@w3.org>, Armin Haller <armin.haller@anu.edu.au>
> It is always interested, though not surprising, when moments of clarity > quickly get re-submerged in ambiguity. My impression from Delft was that > the group made a fairly clear choice for two ontologies, two URI’s, two > namespaces. The first, designated by SOSA, containing a small set of > concepts and properties, with annotated semantics. The second, > designated by SSN, importing the SOSA ontology and primarily adding > formal (OWL + RDFS) semantics that are as equivalent as possible to the > annotations in SOSA. The group allowed that there might also be > additional concepts and properties, together with their formal axioms, > defined in SSN that are not part of SOSA. The group aimed for SOSA to be > a vocabulary as light and un-encumbered by semantic technology and > history as possible and usable without any knowledge of the existence of > SSN, and SSN to be a reasonably complete OWL ontology built on top of > the SOSA vocabulary. This is pretty much my understanding too (without having been in Delft), so this is re-assuring. Note, though, that in this email, you naturally? name those creatures "SOSA" and "SSN" ... not, in this order, 'sosa-lite' and 'sosa' OR 'sosa' and 'sosa-full'. Raphaël -- Raphaël Troncy EURECOM, Campus SophiaTech Data Science Department 450 route des Chappes, 06410 Biot, France. e-mail: raphael.troncy@eurecom.fr & raphael.troncy@gmail.com Tel: +33 (0)4 - 9300 8242 Fax: +33 (0)4 - 9000 8200 Web: http://www.eurecom.fr/~troncy/
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