Re: fixing ssn

Hi Kerry,

I am bit surprised by your message and what exactly it means. How does 
working on the old SSN align with SOSA and everything else we discussed 
over the past 6 months?

Best,
Krzysztof

On 09/11/2016 07:14 AM, Kerry Taylor wrote:
>
> I have just “fixed”  the dolce removal from ssn. The version we were 
> looking at on webprotege had some errors of uncertain provenance, so I 
> went back to SSN  as it was left by the XG here 
> https://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/ssn/ssnx/ssn.owl (more commonly 
> known as http://purl.oclc.org/NET/ssnx/ssn) and removed dolce all over 
> again. I also changed the ssn namespace to the new W3c one, and the 
> dolce one to the new one 
> http://www.ontologydesignpatterns.org/ont/dul/DUL.owl, and added some 
>  annotation comments to reflect this.
>
> We now have, on github, a new folder sdw/ssn/ssn_separated which 
> contains ssn.owl 
> <https://github.com/w3c/sdw/blob/gh-pages/ssn/ssn_separated/ssn.owl> 
> and dul-alignment.owl 
> <https://github.com/w3c/sdw/blob/gh-pages/ssn/ssn_separated/dul-alignment.owl> 
>   . The latter imports dolce but the former does not.   If you look at 
> the alignment ontology you can see that ssn has lost a few important 
> things that now cannot be said at all and will need to be natively 
>  rebuilt,  in addition to the constraints that dolce gave it.
>
> There are also a good few “bugs” remaining – but these are all 
> original ssn bugs. I am thinking of a few things in annotations 
> (including stuff we already changed in the web-protégé version) and a 
> lot of typos, and at least one place where some class is explicitly 
> subclassed from owl;thing.
>
> I plan to gradually work through those bugs – and will bring to the 
> attention of the list anything that is not either already decided or 
> for which there is some choice about what to do.
>
> If anyone would like to give it a once-over in case I have done 
> something stupid, please do.
>
> --Kerry
>


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