Re: Motivations

The motivation would be "attaching cover art". The great thing about Skos
is that you can have broader / narrower concepts and so "attaching [a
resource]" is just a broader concept. You don't have to mention the broader
concept in the annotation itself, it comes for free because the motivations
are skos concepts.

Regards,

Jacob

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Jacob Jett
Research Assistant
Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship
The Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 2:40 PM, Denenberg, Ray <rden@loc.gov> wrote:

> “case I would make a Skos concept for "attaching" or "linking" and then
> make an additional concept for "attaching-cover-art" which is a sub-type of
> the first concept. “
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> So “attaching’” would be a motivation, and “attaching cover art” a
> sub-motivation?    How do you express a sub-motivation?
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> Ray
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> *From:* jgjett@gmail.com [mailto:jgjett@gmail.com] *On Behalf Of *Jacob
> Jett
> *Sent:* Monday, February 02, 2015 3:31 PM
> *To:* Web Annotation
> *Subject:* Re: Motivations
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> My first intuition with regards to changing the predicate to "asserting"
> is that it is probably okay. However...
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> With regards to the Bibframe use case, I understand it from bygone days as
> a cataloger. It is frequently the case that it is desirable to give OPAC
> users additional information about bibliographic resources beyond the
> metadata records that describe them and, it certainly became standard
> practice in the early 2000's to attach cover art images to metadata records
> as a means to supplement them. When the end user retrieves the record in
> the OPAC it gives them something to look for on the shelf.
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> In this example though the actual motivation for the annotation is not
> "Cover Art" but rather "Attaching a Resource" -- in this case an image file
> depicting some cover art. Bibframe has a specific use for a more general
> motivation within their contextual framework. In this case I would make a
> Skos concept for "attaching" or "linking" and then make an additional
> concept for "attaching-cover-art" which is a sub-type of the first concept.
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> No real need to wander away from using verbs in the gerund form.
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> Regards,
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> Jacob
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> _____________________________________________________
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> Jacob Jett
> Research Assistant
> Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship
> The Graduate School of Library and Information Science
> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
> 501 E. Daniel Street, MC-493, Champaign, IL 61820-6211 USA
> (217) 244-2164
> jjett2@illinois.edu
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> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 2:13 PM, Denenberg, Ray <rden@loc.gov> wrote:
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> *From: Benjamin Young [mailto:bigbluehat@hypothes.is]
> <[mailto:bigbluehat@hypothes.is]>*
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> > If we choose to change "describing" to "description" then we should
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> > "hasMotivation" also, so that the whole is more legible.
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> *(As Rob notes, it's actually "motivatedBy".)  I would like to change it
> to "asserting".  I think of an annotation as asserting a relationship
> between the body and target.  Thus, if A is a review of B, then the
> annotation:*
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> ·         *has target B,*
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> ·         *has body A,*
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> ·         *is asserting that  the body is a review of the target.  I.e.
> it is “asserting (a) review”*
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> > "annotation is a description" reads nicely...but then looks like
> sub-classing.
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> *I'm trying to find a middle ground here, where we can talk about type
> without it needing to be rdf:type.*
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> > Ray's original motivation was improving our cosmetics:
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> *I lied.*
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> *Well not really lied, but perhaps we could  see this as a change where
> the world at large would view it as cosmetic while my constituency would
> see it as something more substantive. *
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> *I want to also point out, although  the motivations listed in the model
> are expressible in the gerund for (and perhaps all could be expressed in
> infinitive form)   there are going to be annotation “types” that cannot be
> expressed in either of those forms.  I have already submitted “cover art”
> as an annotation type.  How would you express the motivation there?
> “Coverarting”?  “Table of contents” is going to be an annotation type in
> BIBFRAME (which I’ll explain in a separate post) and that’s another
> example.  HeldItem might be another annotation type. *
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> > * Is the objection to the use of skos:Concepts, rather than classes?
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> *No, no objection from me, to the model prescribing this approach.  We
> have already left the door open for other namespaces to use subclassing
> instead (or in addition) and that’s good enough for me.*
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> > * If not, is the objection to the definition of motivation for creating
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> *The closest thing I see (in the model) to a definition is “the reasons
> why the Annotation was created”  and I have no objection to that
> definition.*
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> > * If not, given that these are instances, is there significant
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> > understanding by renaming them?
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> *No, to say that there would be a significant improvement in understanding
> would be a stretch. I am saying that the suggested change would allow those
> of us who like to think in terms of annotation types to do so, without
> forcing the concept on those who don’t. *
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> *Thanks.  *
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> *Ray*
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