Re: [sdw] Sample modeling in sosa/ssn (#1122)

I wouldn’t want to undervalue the importance of identifying sosa:FeatureOfInterest as being of the physical world, yet with ObservedProperties that result from an observation process. That act of interpretation and commitment is very commonly overlooked, especially in IoT / WoT circles, sometimes with tragic results, c.f. Lawrence, MA gas pipe explosions.

—Josh

> On Apr 27, 2019, at 12:01 AM, Simon Cox <notifications@github.com> wrote:
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> Yes, feature-of-interest is primarily a role.
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> We also wanted a class for the set of things on which observations had been, or might be, made. You are quite correct that this could be more or less anything, so the sosa:FeatureOfInterest class is very very general - similar to GF_Feature or Feature from ISO 19109. We could possibly have just used owl:Thing or 'owl:NamedIndividual, but we went with sosa:FeatureOfInterest`.
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> As @kjano <https://github.com/kjano> implies there is no harm in giving this class a name, and it allows us to add additional axioms which assist in clarifying some of the intentions elsewhere in the ontology.
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