Re: Attribute or Property Ontology?

Hi Mike, you’re probably talking of a “framing” ontology that “unifies" sets of properties for certain entities?
This Infobox-like structure is missing from DBpedia for example, as I described in [1].
Probably the oldest ontology pattern for that is Descriptions and Situations [2], also embedded in the DOLCE+DnS-Ultralight (DUL) foundational ontology [3].
Aldo

[1] http://www.slideshare.net/gangemi/isemantics-key
[2] http://www.ontologydesignpatterns.org/cp/owl/descriptionandsituation.owl
[3] http://www.ontologydesignpatterns.org/ont/dul/DUL.owl

On Jul 11, 2014, at 4:42:26 AM , Mike Bergman <mike@mkbergman.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I have been looking for an ontology that organizes and describes possible characteristics or attributes for common entity types, such as what might be found in a key-value pair in Wikipedia infoboxes and such.
> 
> I have had no luck finding such a vocabulary or ontology. The closest representation I found was one related to sensors and the Internet of Things (IoT) [1]. The Wolfram Language also has an interesting structure around units [2]. Biperpedia has recently been discussed by Google [3], but no actual ontology or structure yet appears available for inspection.
> 
> Does anyone know of a general ontology for capturing record/entity attributes or characteristics (properties)? I know some domains like biomedical may have partial approaches to this, but I'm seeking something that has as its intent being a general-purpose attribute reference.
> 
> Suggestions or pointers would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks, Mike
> 
> [1] http://eprints.eemcs.utwente.nl/23734/01/CICARE2013_-_Brandt_et_al_-_Semantic_interoperability_in_sensor_applications_-_final_version.pdf
> [2] http://reference.wolfram.com/language/guide/Units.html
> [3] http://infolab.stanford.edu/~euijong/biperpedia.pdf
>

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