- From: Joshua Lieberman <jlieberman@tumblingwalls.com>
- Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2017 09:54:22 -0400
- To: Raphaël Troncy <raphael.troncy@eurecom.fr>
- Cc: Ed Parsons <eparsons@google.com>, Rob Atkinson <rob@metalinkage.com.au>, Kerry Taylor <kerry.taylor@anu.edu.au>, Phil Archer <phila@w3.org>, Maxime Lefrançois <maxime.lefrancois@emse.fr>, "public-sdw-wg@w3.org" <public-sdw-wg@w3.org>, Armin Haller <armin.haller@anu.edu.au>
The decision, I believe, was to completely separate the two ontologies. Proposing to link the names has been a later modification. > On Apr 5, 2017, at 9:14 AM, Raphaël Troncy <raphael.troncy@eurecom.fr> wrote: > >> It is always interested, though not surprising, when moments of clarity >> quickly get re-submerged in ambiguity. My impression from Delft was that >> the group made a fairly clear choice for two ontologies, two URI’s, two >> namespaces. The first, designated by SOSA, containing a small set of >> concepts and properties, with annotated semantics. The second, >> designated by SSN, importing the SOSA ontology and primarily adding >> formal (OWL + RDFS) semantics that are as equivalent as possible to the >> annotations in SOSA. The group allowed that there might also be >> additional concepts and properties, together with their formal axioms, >> defined in SSN that are not part of SOSA. The group aimed for SOSA to be >> a vocabulary as light and un-encumbered by semantic technology and >> history as possible and usable without any knowledge of the existence of >> SSN, and SSN to be a reasonably complete OWL ontology built on top of >> the SOSA vocabulary. > > This is pretty much my understanding too (without having been in Delft), so this is re-assuring. > Note, though, that in this email, you naturally? name those creatures "SOSA" and "SSN" ... not, in this order, 'sosa-lite' and 'sosa' OR 'sosa' and 'sosa-full'. > > Raphaël > > -- > Raphaël Troncy > EURECOM, Campus SophiaTech > Data Science Department > 450 route des Chappes, 06410 Biot, France. > e-mail: raphael.troncy@eurecom.fr & raphael.troncy@gmail.com > Tel: +33 (0)4 - 9300 8242 > Fax: +33 (0)4 - 9000 8200 > Web: http://www.eurecom.fr/~troncy/ > >
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