Re: (a scope proposal) Re: a context example for RDF

Jimmy
Your use of Alt to enumerate the possibilities is something that might be
used
in a disambiguation algorithm to decide which context is appropriate in
a given situation.

However, the context itself is like an Ontology.
It may contain a very large set of propositions.
Among the propositions in each context are those propositions
which define the meaning of "Jane Doe" in that context.

As with Ontologies, I think the appropriate notation is that of Qnames, viz.

    Aristotle:Jane Doe
    Politics:Jane Doe
============
Dick McCullough
knowledge := man do identify od existent done;
knowledge haspart proposition list;
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From: "Jimmy Cerra" <jimbobbs@hotmail.com>
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Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 7:27 PM
Subject: (a scope proposal) Re: a context example for RDF


> That reminds me a lot of the concept of scope in XTM.  The rough idea is
> that a specific topic may have different meanings, implementations,
> etcetera in different contexts or scopes.
>
> I think that rdf:Bag, rdf:Alt and rdf:Seq should end up being used in
> this context, as in:
>
> <rdf:Description rdf:about="#Jane">
> <rdf:type>
> <rdf:Alt>
> <rdf:li rdf:parseType="Resource">
> <rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource="#Aristotle" />
> <rdf:type rdf:resource="#Man" />
> </rdf:li>
> <rdf:li rdf:parseType="Resource">
> <rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource="#Politics" />
> <rdf:type rdf:resource="#Woman" />
> </rdf:li>
> </rdf:Alt>
> </rdf:type>
> </rdf:Description>
>
> Although I wish the language would be extended so I could say this:
>
> <rdf:Description rdf:about="#Jane">
> <rdf:type>
> <rdf:Alt>
> <rdf:li rdf:scope="#Aristotle" rdf:resource="#Man" />
> <rdf:li rdf:scope="#Politics"  rdf:resource="#woman" />
> </rdf:Alt>
> </rdf:type>
> </rdf:Description>
>
> Just as you do with different language scopes in the current spec:
>
> <rdf:Description rdf:about="#Jane">
> <rdf:type>
> <rdf:Alt>
> <rdf:li xml:lang="en-us" rdf:resource="#Woman" />
> <rdf:li xml:lang="x-klingon" rdf:resource="#Be%27%27e%27" />
> </rdf:Alt>
> </rdf:type>
> </rdf:Description>
>
> --
> James F. Cerra

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