Re: SDW plenary agenda item - Namespace for SOSA and SSN ontology

On 02/22/2017 11:57 AM, Armin Haller wrote:
> We do have the same problem with two namespaces if we only *reuse* a term in SSN from SOSA. Even with two namespaces, you would not be able to get the further restrictions on sosa:Platform defined in SSN unless you go to the location (URI) of the SSN ontology.

Agreed.

>
> On 23/2/17, 6:20 am, "Krzysztof Janowicz" <janowicz@ucsb.edu> wrote:
>
>      >
>      > So, http://www.w3.org/ns/sosa/Platform enables me to get the statement
>      > I can find in CORE ontology (i.e. the single statement telling me that
>      > this is rdfs:Class). How can I get the other statements (the
>      > restriction)?
>      
>      Same concern here and to a certain degree the answer I got was that you
>      cannot (which I think is problematic).
>      
>      Best,
>      Jano
>      
>      
>      On 02/22/2017 04:43 AM, Raphaël Troncy wrote:
>      > I still have more questions:
>      >
>      >> A term would be defined in at most one ontology, CORE or FULL.
>      >> Potentially, if this ontology is CORE, this term will be further
>      >> axiomatized (not defined), in the ontology FULL.
>      >
>      > This means that a concept (e.g. Platform) could be simply defined in
>      > the CORE ontology:
>      >
>      > sosa:Platform a rdfs:Class, owl:Class .
>      >
>      > and further axiomitized in the FULL ontology:
>      >
>      > sosa:Platform rdfs:subClassOf [
>      >   rdf:type owl:Restriction ;
>      >   owl:onProperty sosa:inDeployment ;
>      >   owl:allValuesFrom sosa:Deployment ]
>      >
>      >> So to answer your question, looking up
>      >> URI http://www.w3.org/ns/unify/TermInBothOntologies would redirect you
>      >> to CORE ontology if it is defined  in CORE.
>      >
>      > So, http://www.w3.org/ns/sosa/Platform enables me to get the statement
>      > I can find in CORE ontology (i.e. the single statement telling me that
>      > this is rdfs:Class). How can I get the other statements (the
>      > restriction)?
>      >
>      >   Raphaël
>      >
>      
>      
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>      Krzysztof Janowicz
>      
>      Geography Department, University of California, Santa Barbara
>      4830 Ellison Hall, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4060
>      
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>      
>


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Krzysztof Janowicz

Geography Department, University of California, Santa Barbara
4830 Ellison Hall, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4060

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