Re: Updated SOSA core RE: SOSA core - procedures vs devices

Hi Simon,

> But definitely the order in that hierarchy should be resolved. 

My argument in issue 309 (https://github.com/w3c/sdw/issues/309) was 
about hierarchies in general. I am not against having such hierarchy of 
activities, I am just questioning whether we need this in SOSA-core 
compared to another module. I have a nice formal argument for that and 
will write it up later. Essentially, it shows that we do not generate 
any new entailment.

Jano


On 07/26/2016 03:28 PM, Simon.Cox@csiro.au wrote:
>
> Currently Sensing is a subclass of Observing (or Observation), which 
> is a subclass of Activity. That was my proposed ordering – seeing 
> ‘sensing’ as a subset of ‘observing’ to be consistent with OGC usage, 
> where ‘Observation’ covers not only sensing but also forecasting, 
> simulation, human-observing (which is a combination of sensing and 
> application of knowledge).
>
> But if we really have a tabula rasa, then we should consider the best 
> terminology and correct hierarchy – maybe ‘estimating’ is a more 
> general term.
>
> But definitely the order in that hierarchy should be resolved.
>
> Simon
>
> *From:*Armin Haller [mailto:armin.haller@anu.edu.au]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, 27 July 2016 7:58 AM
> *To:* janowicz@ucsb.edu; Cox, Simon (L&W, Clayton) 
> <Simon.Cox@csiro.au>; jlieberman@tumblingwalls.com
> *Cc:* danh.lephuoc@tu-berlin.de; public-sdw-wg@w3.org; Kerry Taylor 
> <kerry.taylor@anu.edu.au>
> *Subject:* Re: Updated SOSA core RE: SOSA core - procedures vs devices
>
> The proposal we arrived to now looks good to me.
>
> The only change, where I second Simon is, that we should rename 
> Actuation to Actuating. That is then aligned to Sensing and also 
> implies an Activity. The same applies to Observation which I would 
> rename Observing. Although, I am not sure if we need the Observing 
> class in the core if we have Sensing anyway.
>
> *From: *Krzysztof Janowicz <janowicz@ucsb.edu <mailto:janowicz@ucsb.edu>>
> *Reply-To: *"janowicz@ucsb.edu <mailto:janowicz@ucsb.edu>" 
> <janowicz@ucsb.edu <mailto:janowicz@ucsb.edu>>
> *Date: *Wednesday, 27 July 2016 6:34 am
> *To: *"Simon.Cox@csiro.au <mailto:Simon.Cox@csiro.au>" 
> <Simon.Cox@csiro.au <mailto:Simon.Cox@csiro.au>>, Armin Haller 
> <armin.haller@anu.edu.au <mailto:armin.haller@anu.edu.au>>, 
> "jlieberman@tumblingwalls.com <mailto:jlieberman@tumblingwalls.com>" 
> <jlieberman@tumblingwalls.com <mailto:jlieberman@tumblingwalls.com>>
> *Cc: *"danh.lephuoc@tu-berlin.de <mailto:danh.lephuoc@tu-berlin.de>" 
> <danh.lephuoc@tu-berlin.de <mailto:danh.lephuoc@tu-berlin.de>>, 
> "public-sdw-wg@w3.org <mailto:public-sdw-wg@w3.org>" 
> <public-sdw-wg@w3.org <mailto:public-sdw-wg@w3.org>>, Kerry Taylor 
> <kerry.taylor@anu.edu.au <mailto:kerry.taylor@anu.edu.au>>
> *Subject: *Re: Updated SOSA core RE: SOSA core - procedures vs devices
>
> I made some cosmetic changes and pushed them to github. I am going to 
> make another series of changes that are a bit bigger and thus will 
> leave them in 
> https://github.com/w3c/sdw/blob/kjanowicz-ssn/ssn/rdf/sosa.ttl for now 
> until we agree on them. Most of this is from our last discussion about 
> procedures and platforms.
>
> Jano
>
> On 07/18/2016 10:01 PM, Simon.Cox@csiro.au <mailto:Simon.Cox@csiro.au> 
> wrote:
>
>     I’ve just pushed an update to the SOSA Core ontology
>
>     https://github.com/w3c/sdw/tree/simon-ssn/ssn/rdf
>
>     in particular
>     https://github.com/w3c/sdw/blob/simon-ssn/ssn/rdf/sosa.ttl
>
>     This includes the hierarchy shown on the wiki page
>     https://www.w3.org/2015/spatial/wiki/SOSA_Ontology
>
>     I’ve cleaned up the class names a bit, and added documentation on
>     all elements.
>
>     Simon
>
> -- 
> Krzysztof Janowicz
> Geography Department, University of California, Santa Barbara
> 4830 Ellison Hall, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4060
> Email: jano@geog.ucsb.edu <mailto:jano@geog.ucsb.edu>
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Krzysztof Janowicz

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