- From: Pierre-Antoine Champin <pchampin@liris.cnrs.fr>
- Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:50:03 +0000
- To: Joakim Söderberg <joakim.soderberg@ericsson.com>
- CC: public-media-annotation@w3.org
Hi Joakim, I'm not sure designing "yet another" ontology of abstraction levels is a good idea. Felix already pointed out that FRBR, for example, was not entirely satisfactory to the BBC, and that they had to design their own abstraction hierarchy. I would favor a minimalistic approach with a single and very general property. For that matter, it seems to me that dc:source [1] is a good candidate, and this is what I used in my toy implementation. More refined abstraction hierarchies could be defined by specializing this property and introducing new classes, like the ones in FRBR or in the BBC ontology, but I think committing to one or the other would only limit the scope of our work. pa [1] http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/#terms-source Joakim Söderberg a écrit : >> This shows, in my (biased ;) opinion, that even "flat looking" >> metadata scheme involve several layers of abstraction, and so that >> our ontology must take this into account, preferably in an explicit >> way. > > This makes me think that we should have a more complex ontology,with > some fundamental entities that can resolve mappings from/to different > levels of abstraction. > > We already have that as a requirement: Requirement r07: Introducing > several abstraction levels in the ontology > http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-media-annot-reqs-20090119/#req-r07 > > > I would like to ask the group if there are any volunteers to start > drafting such Ontology? > > /Joakim >
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