Re: How can I link a resource to an event?

Dear Frans

There is another one on modeling events with particular strength on 
supporting various different features of event relations including 
causality, correlation and different dimensions of mereology (i.e., 
event composition). The ontology is plainly called 'F' or Event-Model-F 
and we have been working on it some time ago. Unfortunately, the website 
/ ontologies were down (they used to be included in a Wiki). So, I spend 
some time collecting the information and putting the ontologies up again.

- For background information on 'F' please see the papers listed here:
   http://www.kd.informatik.uni-kiel.de/en/research/ontologies/ -> then 
click on 'Event-Model-F'

- The ontologies themselves are now available from (latest version) this 
website:
http://ansgarscherp.net/ontology/events.semantic-multimedia.org/ontology/2010/12/05/

I hope this helps and Merry Christmas,

Ansgar


On 23.12.2015 15:39, Frans Knibbe wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I think I have made some progress in this matter. It was triggered by 
> a personal message I received in response to my question. It pointed 
> me at an article about Narrative Knowledge Representation Language 
> (NKRL), a formal way of describing events. In this article a reference 
> was made to DOLCE, an upper ontology. This made me realize that the 
> general thing I was looking for could very well be found in sources of 
> general semantics: upper ontologies. And indeed that seems to be the 
> case. In hindsight it makes a lot of sense.
>
> I think I have found applicable properties inDUL (DOLCE+DnS Ultralite) 
> <http://ontologydesignpatterns.org/wiki/Ontology:DOLCE+DnS_Ultralite>, 
> UMBEL <http://www.umbel.org/> and CIDOC CRM 
> <http://www.cidoc-crm.org/> (not really a general ontology, but my 
> question comes from a cultural heritage use case). Upper ontologies 
> like these offer semantics for an 'event' concept, various properties 
> to associate something else with an event, and inverse properties to 
> link from the event to the thing that undergoes the event. In my case, 
> I think I will use the following properties to link to an event:
>
>   * from DUL:
>     http://www.ontologydesignpatterns.org/ont/dul/DUL.owl#isParticipantIn
>     <http://www.ontologydesignpatterns.org/ont/dul/DUL.owl#isParticipantIn>
>   * from CIDOC-CRM:
>     http://www.cidoc-crm.org/cidoc-crm/P12i_was_present_at
>     <http://www.cidoc-crm.org/cidoc-crm/P12i_was_present_at>
>   * from UMBEL: http://umbel.org/umbel#relatesToEvent
>     <http://umbel.org/umbel#relatesToEvent>
>
> More suggestions are welcome, but now I at least have something.
>
> Regards,
> Frans
>
>
>
> 2015-12-21 14:36 GMT+01:00 Frans Knibbe <frans.knibbe@geodan.nl 
> <mailto:frans.knibbe@geodan.nl>>:
>
>     Hello,
>
>     This is a question about events, something that happens or
>     happened at some time. I have found several ways of describing
>     events in Linked Data:
>
>       * use The Simple Event Model Ontology
>         <http://semanticweb.cs.vu.nl/2009/11/sem/semdoc.html>
>       * use The Event Ontology
>         <http://motools.sourceforge.net/event/event.html>
>       * use LODE <http://linkedevents.org/ontology/>
>       * http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/#dcmitype-Event
>         <http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/#dcmitype-Event>
>
>     So I won't have trouble describing an event using common
>     vocabularies. But what is a general way of linking a resource to
>     an event? Expressing that an event takes place in the course of
>     life of a resource? Which predicate could I use?
>
>     Some background: I am trying to assign certain temporal properties
>     to resources. Some specific properties can not be found in common
>     vocabularies. However, those entities can be found in common
>     SKOS-based thesauri, because SKOS thesauri tend to have more
>     specialized contents than ontologies.
>
>     Take the concept 'pedestrian zone' from EuroVoc
>     <http://eurovoc.europa.eu/4799> for example: A SKOS concept
>     exists, but the concept is not readily available as a temporal
>     property, if for instance one wants to share the fact that a
>     certain street will be a pedestrian zone at a certain time.
>
>     A possible way of using such a term would be to define an event of
>     which the subject (dcterms:subject
>     <http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject>) is the SKOS concept. The event
>     would have applicable start or end times. That way I have a
>     temporal entity built on common semantics, and I have avoided
>     having to create my own vocabulary for describing the thing I want
>     to express. And so I arrive at the problem: I have some data
>     describing an event, but how can I link from a resource to the
>     event, with the meaning of 'has undergone event' or 'will undergo
>     event'?
>
>     I see that event ontologies do allow linking from an event to a
>     place or a person. But I would rather have it the other way
>     around: link from a resource to an event, instead of linking from
>     the event. And how would it be possible to link an event to things
>     that are neither people not locations (e.g. 'life on earth')? I
>     could be mistaken, but it seems a general property to link to an
>     event could come in handy.
>
>     About six weeks ago have asked this question at
>     answers.semanticweb.com (here
>     <http://answers.semanticweb.com/questions/32996/how-to-link-a-resource-to-an-event>),
>     but so far no reply came in. So I thought I could try to ask the
>     question on this list now.
>
>     Greetings,
>     Frans
>
>
>