Re: [web-annotation] Relationship between Motivations and Actions (from schema.org)

I must admit I am fairly uneasy about the idea of reorganizing the 
motivations at this point. As @paolociccarese said, motivations are a 
set of SKOS concepts, and they are actually a flat structure, not even
 using the skos terminology to create some form of a hierarchy. 
Defining some sort of a hierarchy to mirror schema.org is not an 
obvious thing to do. 

Beyond the timing aspect, I am not even that sure that 
schema.org/Action is a good model. What it says, on the top level:

> An action performed by a direct agent and indirect participants upon
 a direct object. Optionally happens at a location with the help of an
 inanimate instrument. The execution of the action may produce a 
result. Specific action sub-type documentation specifies the exact 
expectation of each argument/role. 

What this suggests (although not really clearly said) is that a schema
 Action is to model an active entity, like a process, widget, or 
something similar which, as the text says, has an 'execution' that may
 even produce a result. An annotation is actually a relationship 
between a target and the body, with a bunch of descriptions of that 
relationship. It is not a process. An action has an 'agent', has 
'participants', etc (worth looking at the examples at the bottom of 
https://schema.org/Action).

My conclusion is that schema.org/Action and an Annotation are 
different animals. We should not mix them.


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