Re: Mapping SKOS into BFO

Hi all,

I definitely don't get all the nuances here, but I thought I'd flag up a 
possible connection here between CMO, the discussion on this list in August 
last year about the proposed foaf:focus property (see thread from [1]), and 
older discussions from 2005 (see thread from [2]) about skos:it/skos:as.

Could cmo:represents and cmo:representedBy be the properties we're looking for?

Cheers,

Alistair

[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-esw-thes/2010Aug/0002.html
[2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-esw-thes/2005Jun/0002.html

On Sat, Apr 09, 2011 at 12:30:05PM -0400, Jim McCusker wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Thad Guidry <thadguidry@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Could you map out a quick example within BFO where lytic vacuole and
> > vacuole would play out, so that I could see a skos:Concept , a
> > bfo:Entity , and a snap:GenericallyDependentContinuent coordinated
> > with a snap:DependentContinuent ?
> 
> Sure, that is actually a big part of what CMO attempts to address. The
> submitted paper (not proceedings, but accepted to ICBO) is available
> at http://tw.rpi.edu/web/doc/towardscmo. This example would look like
> the following, using OWL 2.
> 
> If the classes vacoule and lytic_vacoule are universals:
> 
> lytic_vacoule_concept a skos:Concept;
>     cmo:represents lytic_vacoule.
>     skos:broader vacoule_concept.
> lytic_vacoule a owl:Class, cmo:UniversalClass;
>     owl:subclassOf vacoule.
> vacoule a owl:Class, cmo:UniversalClass;
> vacoule_concept a skos:Concept;
>     cmo:represents vacoule.
> 
> If the classes vacoule and lytic_vacoule are not universals, they can
> be expressed like this:
> 
> lytic_vacoule a skos:Concept, owl:Class;
>     cmo:represents lytic_vacoule.
>     skos:broader vacoule.
>     owl:subclassOf vacoule.
> vacoule a owl:Class, skos:Concept;
> 
> In each case, the idea of the vacoule is the concept, while the class
> of vacoule is the thing in the world that the concept represents. In
> non-realist representations, the classes and concepts can be the same,
> while in realist representations they can remain distinguished.
> 
> Jim
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> Jim McCusker
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> Yale School of Medicine
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> 
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> 

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