Re: Voting on a name for ssn this week in plenary

Yes, the decision was two ontologies, two URI’s, two namespaces. No unravelling there. In our last plenary we discussed a long-standing issue raised by Kerry (https://www.w3.org/2015/spatial/track/issues/84 and https://www.w3.org/2015/spatial/track/issues/102) what the core should be named. In the ensuing discussion, we had a vote that preferred the two ontologies to use the same stem, with a decision on the stem to be postponed until this week’s plenary.

From the discussions on the mailing list, some people who have been absent from that meeting have raised concerns about that proposal and prefer to leave everything as it is, i.e. call the core SOSA and the vertical extension SSN.

On 5/4/17, 9:54 pm, "Joshua Lieberman" <jlieberman@tumblingwalls.com> wrote:

    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'.
    > 
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