Re: SOSA/SSN integration architecture

I've added Option 8, which I always suspected might be cleaner.

Going round the difficulties of interpreting all the other options, I'm now
pretty much convinced. Its probably also the simplest change to where we
are now too.

for completeness I also put in a stub for Option 9 - abandoning lightweight
SOSA and stuffing all the OWL-DL in there.

Rob

On Tue, 28 Feb 2017 at 09:38 Rob Atkinson <rob@metalinkage.com.au> wrote:

>
> have looked through arguments for votes, and its great to have people's
> rationale's laid out.  Hopefully people are happy to examine these and
> reconsider votes (I know I am happy to do this when I've misinterpreted).
>
> so I'd like to dive into the option 5 comments:
>
> Maxime: -1. This is the current de facto implementation and I could live
> with it. The big problem of this solution is that in the same REC, terms
> sometimes have namespace sosa:, sometimes namespace ssn:. Again, that might
> confuse the end user.
>
> *  "-1" is inconsistent with "I could live with it".
> * I dont see that the same term ever has two different namespaces - this
> is one of the distinguishing factors of this option - it explicitly avoids
> that. Its more like option 1, but with a new namespace only for new terms
> so no infrastructure tricks required.
>
> Armin: 0. Since terms are just reused in SSN even if the semantics are
> refined, it is impossible to access the stronger semantics of a term
> directly through its URI. As this is not Linked Data compliant, I see
> Option 2 as superior to this one.
>
> * "Linked Data compliant" is a strong statement - and Linked Data makes no
> statements at all about its relationship with OWL.
> * Option 2 doesnt address the full semantics issue, except by forcing
> instances to use ssn (wrtitten as module:) - so it only does it at the
> expense of SOSA and SSN instances being different, and it purs burden on
> client to negotiate equivalence relationships. Its a far higher burden on
> users who dont expect to have to load and negotiate OWL to understand the
> data. Option 2 is no more "Linked Data Compliant" because Linked Data is
> also silent on how to handle non-unique naming at run time. In fact Option
> 2 is not Linked Data in that it demands using OWL to get definitions
> transitively via equivalences rather than simple links.
> * one option would be for sosa to owl:import sosa+owl.ttl  - so non OWL
> environments will just ignore this, and OWL ones will access full semantics
>
>
> I will add another option for this "clean case..." - the more we look at
> this problem the more the mixing of concerns (axiomitisation vs extension)
> in SSN over-complicates the implementation.
>
> rob
>
> On Mon, 27 Feb 2017 at 23:10 Armin Haller <armin.haller@anu.edu.au> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>
>
> In case of Option 2 as in Option 1 I don’t have a strong preference in
> terms of values for “unify” or “module”. Logically SOSA may be more
> appropriate for “unify”, but I think some group members, because of the
> existing brand SSN prefer SSN for “unify”, which I wouldn’t mind either.
>
>
>
> Option 2 introduces equivalence relations and allows therefore access to
> the more precise definitions of a term through their URI. In Option 6,
> which otherwise is very similar, you can’t. For me the trade-off of
> introducing a couple of equivalence relations is worth the ability to
> access terms directly. I have removed the word “elegant” and detailed why I
> prefer Option 2 over 6.
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Armin
>
>
>
> *From: *Maxime Lefrançois <maxime.lefrancois@emse.fr>
> *Date: *Monday, 27 February 2017 at 10:39 pm
>
>
> *To: *Armin Haller <armin.haller@anu.edu.au>, Rob Atkinson <
> rob@metalinkage.com.au>, Raphaël Troncy <raphael.troncy@eurecom.fr>, "
> public-sdw-wg@w3.org" <public-sdw-wg@w3.org>
> *Subject: *Re: SOSA/SSN integration architecture
>
>
>
> Hi Armin, all,
>
>
>
> Armin, just in case we vote for option2, could you state your preferences
> in terms of values for ''unify'', ''SOSALocalName'', ''SOSALocalName'',
> ''module''?
>
>
>
> why is it that using namespaces "unify:" and "module:" in option 2 makes
> it more elegant than using namespaces "sosa:" and "ssn:" in option 6  to
> you?
>
> (if you substitute ''unify:'' by ''sosa:'' and ''module:'' by ''ssn:'',
> you get very close to option 6)
>
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Maxime
>
>
>
> Le lun. 27 févr. 2017 à 11:53, Maxime Lefrançois <
> maxime.lefrancois@emse.fr> a écrit :
>
> Dear all,
>
>
>
> I added a list of high level PROPOSAL proposals, these may help us proceed
> by dichotomy among the options.
>
>
>
> The table cells contain a high level description of the options, not the
> implications.
>
> What is it that confuses you? the lines headers? the columns headers? the
> terms "declare" and "refines"? something else?
>
>
>
> Two of the new options in the table are now detailed as option 6 and
> option 7.
>
>
>
> There is a "vote" section under each of these options for us to express
> our preferences.
>
> Would love option 1 -  Strongly opposed to options 2, 3, 4 - Could live
> with options 5, 6, 7
>
>
>
> Some of Rob's ideas in former Option are gathered in
> https://www.w3.org/2015/spatial/wiki/Make_SSN_reachable_from_SOSA_using_seeAlso_and_comment
>
>
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Maxime
>
>
>
> Le lun. 27 févr. 2017 à 07:23, Armin Haller <armin.haller@anu.edu.au> a
> écrit :
>
> Thanks Maxime. I have to say the table confuses me a bit, though. Not sure
> if it helps others, who don’t necessarily intimately understand the
> options. Others?
>
>
>
> I have merged Simon’s and Rob’s options and denoted it as Option 5.
>
>
>
> I think the page is fairly stable now and we have discussed potential
> derivations of each Option. I would ask everyone now to have their opinions
> heard in terms of preference. Maybe also mention what Option you can
> definitely not live with and what options are acceptable to you as a
> compromise.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> *From: *Maxime Lefrançois <maxime.lefrancois@emse.fr>
> *Date: *Sunday, 26 February 2017 at 10:44 pm
> *To: *Armin Haller <armin.haller@anu.edu.au>, Rob Atkinson <
> rob@metalinkage.com.au>, Raphaël Troncy <raphael.troncy@eurecom.fr>, "
> public-sdw-wg@w3.org" <public-sdw-wg@w3.org>
>
>
> *Subject: *Re: SOSA/SSN integration architecture
>
>
>
> Dear all,
>
>
>
> I added a section
> https://www.w3.org/2015/spatial/wiki/index.php?title=Integration_Issue&action=submit#Possible_options_in_a_nutshell with
> a table that summarizes several options, including some that are not
> detailed in the wiki page.
>
>
>
>
>
> About Option 5:
>
>
>
> To me it's also equivalent to option 2b/3c, but it provides interesting
> features that can be propagated to all of the other options. Some
> precisions:
>
>
>
> The introductory sentence is misleading:
>
>  - It mentions that it's "same as option 1, except...". Yet, two
> namespaces are defined in option 5, whereas only one is defined in option
> 1. I would not say option 5 is the "same as option 1" because of this.
>
>  - It says "new terms are introduced into a module-specific namespace". It
> appears in the snippets that this "modules-specific namespace" is the ssn:
> namespace. I would rephrase this sentence as "New terms are introduced in
> the ssn: namespace"
>
>  - It says "any semantic changes to definitions require new terms". It is
> also assumed in all of the other options that SSN brings no semantic change
> to SOSA terms, but instead precises their semantics. In those cases where
> an "equivalence" relation is used between a SOSA term and its duplicate SSN
> term, then SSN terms indirectly precise the semantics of the duplicated
> SOSA terms.
>
>  - About "Behaviours are consistent with W3C architecture, and will work
> best with compliant tools, but are recoverable (i.e. supported by
> documentation hints) if tools make loose assumptions.", see my comments
> below.
>
>
>
> snippet sosa.ttl:
>
>  - it mentions "sosa:Ontology", which is not defined (is it a typo and you
> wanted to use ssn:Ontology ?)
>
>  - the rdfs:comment s provides relevant information and could be used in
> the other options. I suggest we add this triple along with "rdfs:seeAlso
> ssn:Ontology" in sosa.ttl snippets of other options.
>
>
>
> snippet ssn.ttl:
>
>  - the rdfs:comment s provides relevant information and could be used in
> the other options. I suggest we add this triple in ssn.ttl snippets of
> other options.
>
>  - it mentions "unify:Platform" which is not defined in this option (is
> it a typo and you wanted to use sosa:Platform ?)
>
>  - rdfs:subClassOf ssn:System ; should either be in all options, or
> nowhere. I suggest we delete.
>
>
>
> snippets FlibberSensors.ttl and FlobberSensors.ttl
>
>  - I like the definition of Flibber and Flobber in the urban dic :-) are
> they commonly used like Foo and Bar ?
>
>  - these snippets are relevant to any of the other options as well. I
> suggest either we add them there, or remove altogether .
>
>
>
> "And the final mechanism: if you ask for sosa: or sosa:Definitions using
> mimetype for OWL, then you get redirected to ssn:Ontology". I suggest we do
> not implement this mechanism.
>
>  - as you "303 redirect" to the URL of the SSN ontology, I agree that
> this mechanism conforms to the Web architecture principles. i.e., your are
> not "200 OK serving" two different RDF Graphs at the same URL.
>
>  - This mechanism may be documented in the spec, but existing Sem Web will
> ignore it. In fact, most Sem Web tools accept preferably
> application/rdf+xml. This is the case for OWLAPI [1], and is therefore the
> case in Protégé. What's worse, any tool that accepts preferably
> application/owl+xml will never be able to load SOSA from its IRI. Yet, SOSA
> is a perfectly valid OWL DL Ontology, although it has very few axioms.
>
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Maxime
>
>
>
> [1] - see class DocumentSource.java and its variable REQUESTTYPES,
> https://github.com/owlcs/owlapi/search?q=openConnection
>
>
>
> Le dim. 26 févr. 2017 à 06:36, Armin Haller <armin.haller@anu.edu.au> a
> écrit :
>
> I agree that hijacking conveys a negative meaning. Raphaël already
> mentioned earlier that he does not want to convey that negative meaning, so
> your renaming to “precises” is good.
>
>
>
> We could make Option 2b/3c just Option 5. I will wait for Rob’s response,
> but as it looks to Simon and me, these two options are the same.
>
>
>
> *From: *Maxime Lefrançois <maxime.lefrancois@emse.fr>
> *Date: *Saturday, 25 February 2017 at 12:30 am
> *To: *Rob Atkinson <rob@metalinkage.com.au>, Armin Haller <
> armin.haller@anu.edu.au>, Raphaël Troncy <raphael.troncy@eurecom.fr>, "
> public-sdw-wg@w3.org" <public-sdw-wg@w3.org>
>
>
> *Subject: *Re: SOSA/SSN integration architecture
>
>
>
> Dear all,
>
>
>
>
>
> I checked the options 2 to 4 and corrected some inconsistencies with
> respect to the URIs of the ontologies. :
>
>  - the URI of the SOSA ontology is once written http://www.w3.org/ns/sosa/,
> and once written unify:localname. From this one can infer that ''unify''
> equals "sosa", and ''localname'' equals the empty string.
>
>  - the URI of the SSN ontology is also written unify:localname, so it has
>  the  same URI as the SOSA ontology.
>
>
>
>
>
> The object of the rdfs:isDefinedBy is often the ontology where the term is
> defined, not the namespace.
>
> I updated the snippets to reflect this. Please tell me if you think
> otherwise.
>
>
>
>
>
> I believe term "hijacking" is not well chosen here. It's conveys a
> negative meaning, and does not reflect what is actually happening:
>
> SSN "refines", or "precises" the semantics of some SOSA terms. I changed
> hijacking to "precises".
>
>
>
>
>
> In option 2b/3c, SOSA and SSN are  not in the same namespace, hence I
> hardly see why it would  be considered  as a variant of option 2.
>
>
>
> I just added some spaces in option 5 to correct the "code" sections.
>
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Maxime
>
>
>
> Le ven. 24 févr. 2017 à 09:03, Rob Atkinson <rob@metalinkage.com.au> a
> écrit :
>
> And the mime type handling is a corner case that only applies to the case
> of clients who want owl and gind resources that dont use explicit imports -
> ir instead choose to rely on namespace only (if indeed such clients exist)
>
>
>
> On Fri, 24 Feb 2017, 6:36 PM Rob Atkinson <rob@metalinkage.com.au> wrote:
>
> No the difference is no neec to subclass sosa terms to ssn equivalents.
>
> Perhaps this makes no difference after owl entailment but it makes a big
> difference in that ssn instances are not sosa instances without extra
> reasoning.
>
> Rob
>
>
>
> On Fri, 24 Feb 2017, 4:23 PM Armin Haller <armin.haller@anu.edu.au> wrote:
>
> Now that you have described your option, I don’t see any difference to
> Option 3b which itself is a slight variant of Option 2 (reusing of terms
> ONLY rather than reintroducing terms within the new namespace).
>
>
>
> You define terms in SOSA.
>
> In SSN you import these terms and add axioms.
>
> If the term has not been introduced in SOSA, you define it in the new
> module-specific namespace (SSN).
>
>
>
> If I interpret this correctly, it is exactly Option 3b with the addition
> of the mechanism of handling MIME types.
>
>
>
> *From: *Rob Atkinson <rob@metalinkage.com.au>
> *Date: *Friday, 24 February 2017 at 1:58 pm
> *To: *Rob Atkinson <rob@metalinkage.com.au>, Armin Haller <
> armin.haller@anu.edu.au>, Maxime Lefrançois <maxime.lefrancois@emse.fr>,
> Raphaël Troncy <raphael.troncy@eurecom.fr>, "public-sdw-wg@w3.org" <
> public-sdw-wg@w3.org>
>
>
> *Subject: *Re: SOSA/SSN integration architecture
>
>
>
> Have added option 5 and some clarifications to issue scope (i.e. what does
> extended mean)
>
> Rob
>
>
>
> On Fri, 24 Feb 2017 at 13:13 Rob Atkinson <rob@metalinkage.com.au> wrote:
>
>
>
> IMHO My proposal is not an implementation of option 1,  because new terms
> in SSN are added to a new namespace, and only axioms 100% compatible to
> SOSA are allowed in SSN against SOSA defined terms.
>
>
>
> Option 1 seems to be explicitly about the opposite strategy: new terms in
> SSN in the SOSA namespace and heroics in the infrastructure to manage
> finding these.
>
>
>
> I'm convinced its different, and simpler than the existing options and
> will add it - we can always remove it if people can prove one of the other
> cases is equivalent,
>
>
>
> Rob
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, 24 Feb 2017 at 10:38 Armin Haller <armin.haller@anu.edu.au> wrote:
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
> I have removed the **bold** in the implication of Option 1. I do want to
> keep the implications neutral. Some people may care a lot about that
> specific implication, some others not.
>
>
>
> I also deleted the statement “always the case with slash-based URIs” with
> the “One needs to dereference a term to figure out where this term is
> defined”. Raphaël added the yesterday as an implication. The commonly
> expected behaviour/expectation with Ontology Slash URIs on the Linked Data
> Web is that the ontology sits at the directory level of that term. I think
> it is a valid point to make in this option that the behaviour here and in
> Option 2 would be different. Again, some people may care about that, some
> others not.
>
>
>
> *From: *Maxime Lefrançois <maxime.lefrancois@emse.fr>
> *Date: *Friday, 24 February 2017 at 6:09 am
> *To: *Raphaël Troncy <raphael.troncy@eurecom.fr>, Armin Haller <
> armin.haller@anu.edu.au>, "public-sdw-wg@w3.org" <public-sdw-wg@w3.org>
>
>
> *Subject: *Re: SOSA/SSN integration architecture
>
>
>
> Dear all,
>
>
>
> I updated option 1, and highlighted its multiple variants,
>
>
>
> I would like to highlight variant sosa1, for which looking up the unified
> namespace leads to the SOSA ontology.
>
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Maxime
>
>
>
>
>
> Le jeu. 23 févr. 2017 à 12:12, Raphaël Troncy <raphael.troncy@eurecom.fr>
> a écrit :
>
> > ➢ Done, changed it on the Wiki. I think that makes it clearer.
>
> Thanks.
>
> > ➢ You can use the ontology URI to figure out which terms are in the
> core (SOSA). It is the same behaviour as in Option 1. In Option 1 you also
> either need to dereference each term to figure out where it is defined or
> to use the ontology URI of SOSA or SSN explicitly. If you think this is an
> important caveat, you can spell that out in the implication for both
> options.
>
> I agree, this is true for both options 1 and 2. Done, I have added for
> each: "* One needs to dereference a term to figure out where this term
> is defined OR to use the ontology URI of SOSA or SSN explicitly since
> there is just ONE unify namespace."
>
> Note: Option 3b is still Option 3b and not a variant of Option 1
> although it could be.
>
>    Raphaël
>
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