RE: tidying ssn -- are you ok with?

Jano,
Could you explain the problem   as you see it beforehand please? If it is to go  on the meeting agenda then some thought beforehand would be helpful.

I note that this has already been done in sosa --- and was Simon's  response to an earlier  ssn meeting discussion  about separating examples  from descriptions (rdfs: comment) in a different property. - for visibility, retrievability, and perhaps even an expectation that tools might find it helpful to treat examples differently from descriptions. I can't recall whether sosa currently imports skos - I think that has changed a couple of times (but don't quote me on that).

I am guessing that your objection relates to skos not being in owl DL. But I am only guessing. I am also assuming that we would want to see the same treatment in ssn and sosa.

Options I can think of:
(a) use skos:example and declare it an owl  annotation property (and this will work for any other skos property too). Also don't import skos.
(b) make up our own --e.g   ssn:example
(c) find another one that people use for this purpose
(d) give up - retract everything and just bury examples inside rdfs:comment.

-Kerry

From: Krzysztof Janowicz [mailto:janowicz@ucsb.edu]
Sent: Saturday, 4 February 2017 4:31 PM
To: Kerry Taylor <kerry.taylor@anu.edu.au>; SDW WG Public List <public-sdw-wg@w3.org>
Subject: Re: tidying ssn -- are you ok with?

Hi Kerry,

I think it would be great if we could discuss this in the group meeting next week. I would like to understand our motivation a bit better as well as some decisions that we are taking e.g., using skos:example without importing skos.

Have a nice weekend
Jano


On 02/03/2017 09:15 PM, Kerry Taylor wrote:
I'd like to follow the approach Simon used in sosa (as we discussed in a meeting last year, I think) to separate examples from descriptive comments in the ontology using skos:example.

Are you ok with me doing the same in ssn? I don't  plan to change the content substantively (although I might reword an example a little if it seems a bit too hard to follow e.g. too brief). And I'm not going to add amore examples at this point --- just move the ones already there.

I will not import skos.

Btw- I think this means specgen that we are currently using for the spec doco will no longer be able to extract the example - nor for sosa .
-Kerry





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