Info Service Ontology - 1st draft

Hello,

I thought this ontology might also be of interest for the lod mailing.
Initially a Music Ontology issue, later a FOAF Ontology issue and now 
even with a broader scope ;)

I designed yesterday the Info Service Ontology [1,2]. The initial 
intention behind designing this ontology was to add some knowledge re. 
linked websites from different info services in semantic graphs [5], e.g.

<http://musicbrainz.org/artist/8a1fe33d-6029-462e-bcb7-08e0ebaba6dd.html> a
foaf:Document ;
<http://musicbrainz.org/artist/8a1fe33d-6029-462e-bcb7-08e0ebaba6dd.html> is:info_service 

mo:musicbrainz .

The Info Service Ontology consists of a basic is:InfoService concept 
(which could may owl:equivalentClass prv:DataProvidingService) and some 
additional ones for describing such an info service 
(is:InfoServiceQuality, is:InfoServiceType - the specific individuals 
are currently only proof-of-concept examples). The main hook re. 
specific websites from an info service is is:info_service, which 
associates an is:InfoService instance to a foaf:Document instance (a 
website link).
Furthermore, I defined some is:InfoService individuals, especially 
is:musicbrainz [3] as proof-of-concept example. Therefore, I used also 
some category definitions from DBpedia.

Please feel to add comments, critics and suggestions re. which 
properties might useful for describing an info service.

Planned extensions are:
- enabling multiple info service quality ratings, e.g. by using [4]
- defining a is:recommendation property
- maybe extending the domain of is:info_service to owl:Thing to enabling 
info service associations from data entities different from 
foaf:Document this means all data such an info service can provide, e.g. 
semantic graphs
- add further information service quality properties, this should maybe 
done in another sub ontology, because rating information quality could 
be somehow complex and be realized on different levels of complexity

With this property (is:info_service as relation to an info service 
description) it should be possible, e.g. to enable users the opportunity 
to choose their preferred info services as data sources for their 
knowledge base by selecting the different properties of such an info 
service.
I currently working on my Master-like thesis, which has the topic 
"Semantic Federation of Musical and Music Related Information for 
Establishing a Personal Music Knowledge Base". One concern is that the 
user should be able to select music info services of their choice or the 
application will choose the data sources automatically through 
evaluating the user profile and comparing it with the info service 
descriptions.

That's all for the moment ;)

Cheers,

Bob


[1] 
http://motools.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/motools/infoservice/trunk/rdf/infoservice.n3
[2] 
http://motools.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/motools/infoservice/trunk/gfx/infoservice.gif
[3] 
http://motools.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/motools/infoservice/trunk/gfx/is_-_musicbrainz_example.gif
[4] http://purl.org/stuff/rev#
[5] http://wiki.foaf-project.org/w/FOAF_and_InformationServices

Received on Saturday, 19 June 2010 21:40:20 UTC