- From: Simon Reinhardt <simon.reinhardt@koeln.de>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:10:56 +0200
- CC: public-lod@w3.org
Ryan Shaw wrote: > Our primary interest is in events as reported in news or represented > in historical narrative, which is quite different from, e.g., a > scientific notion of an event as a well-defined process or as part of > a causal mechanism. I think there is probably room for several > different event ontologies given the fuzziness of the concept and the > different modes of understanding (i.e. science vs. history vs. law vs. > "everyday" practical understanding). But we believe this one provides > a useful balance between simplicity and clarity for the kind of use > cases we have in mind. Some other ontologies which you might be interested in for mapping are BIO [1] and OntoMedia ([2] is a good starting point - this group in general might be interesting for you). Regards, Simon [1] http://vocab.org/bio/0.1/.html [2] http://groups.google.ie/group/digital-narrative/web/useful-links
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