- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 11:26:06 -0500
- To: Yves Raimond <yves.raimond@gmail.com>
- Cc: David Canos <davidcanos@gmail.com>, public-lod <public-lod@w3.org>
On Jul 29, 2009, at 4:55 AM, Yves Raimond wrote: > Hello! > > On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 5:28 PM, David Canos<davidcanos@gmail.com> > wrote: >> Hi folks >> i'd like to public a lot of events for a startup project and I want >> to use a >> public vocabulary to make it useful. >> I've found a vocabulary [1] done by Yves, is this ontology the best >> place to >> start with? >> I will extend it in near future. >> [1] http://motools.sourceforge.net/event/event.html >> > > [1] is really good :-) It's quite simple, Indeed. However, it suffers from one glaring defect, which may simply be a problem of documentation: i does not explain its terms. In particular, it refers to a 'factor' of an event, without anywhere saying anything, either in the axioms or in the documentation, to explain what this strange term is supposed to mean. It is not normal English usage to refer to a 'factor' of an event, so ordinary English usage is no guide. The documentation at http://motools.sourceforge.net/event/event.html#term_Factor says an event:Factor is 'everything used as a factor in an event', which is completely useless as it provides no explanatory information whatsoever. If an explanation of event:Foodle was that it described all the foodles of an event, that would be similarly useless as documentation. Can you say WHAT YOU MEAN by a 'factor'? If that is too much to ask, can you give some EXAMPLES both of factors and of non- factors of an event? It is not enough to only give examples, as this does not help the reader understand the limits of your conceptual idea. For example, can something be both and agent and a factor in an event? (Can you say, briefly, why or why not?) And so on. I know this is not easy, and it may be impossible to give a 'definition' of the term, but surely you can give SOME guidance to the user, if you are claiming that this is so simple and obvious to use in such a wide range of applications. > and has been used in quite a > variety of context already, from music data to activities data. Also, > it is really simple, so really easy to grasp and extend. RIght now it is impossible to grasp, and I would have no confidence that any two extensions would be consistent. Pat > If you want > example of last.fm events described using this ontology, take a look > at the recommended events in the http://dbtune.org/last-fm/ wrapper. > > Cheers, > y > >> thanks in advance > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32502 (850)291 0667 mobile phayesAT-SIGNihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes
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