Re: Motivation: Gerund or Infinitive

Well... :)

It would always technically *be* a verb, but I'm not sure it'd be clear in
this JSON.

```
{
  "motivatedBy": "comment"
}
```

Really, though, the "to comment" form could be made as a custom set of SKOS
Concepts for using the infinitive form:
http://www.w3.org/TR/annotation-model/#extending-motivations

But I'd want to see that available only as an extension and not mixed into
the `oa` namespace as that would cause yet more confusion, I'm afraid.

Anyway. :) Saying the same thing different ways, so I'll let others weigh
in.

Laters,
Benjamin

On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Denenberg, Ray <rden@loc.gov> wrote:

> From: Benjamin Young [mailto:bigbluehat@hypothes.is]
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> *> oa:motivatedBy comment*
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> *> has potentially different meaning than*
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> *> oa:motivatedBy commenting*
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> *> *
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> *> The first (to me at least) implies that my annotation was motivated by
> a prior*
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> *> comment *
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> Only if you take “comment” to be a noun, but the proposal is to use the
> infinitive form (where the "to" part of the infinitive is implied) thus it
> would always be understood to be a verb.
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> So:
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> oa:motivatedBy  "comment"
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> says:
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> " motivatedBy   to comment"
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> Admittedly this doesn't sound as good as if the predicate were (as we
> thought yesterday) oa:motivation.  in that case it would say:
> "motivation: to comment".   Actually I’d like to change to predicate (back)
> to oa:motivation.
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> Ray
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