- From: Eric Carlson <eric.carlson@apple.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 07:37:55 -0800
- To: Pierre-Antoine Champin <pchampin@liris.cnrs.fr>, Joakim Söderberg <joakim.soderberg@ericsson.com>
- Cc: public-media-annotation@w3.org
On Feb 23, 2009, at 4:50 AM, Pierre-Antoine Champin wrote: > 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. > I agree whole-heartedly - the first version of this spec should take as minimalistic an approach as possible. I believe a single abstraction layer will be quite powerful, and additional complexity can be built on top of this in the next version of the spec *if* it proves to be necessary as people use the first version of the API. Eric Carlson Rich Media Systems - Apple, Inc.
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