- From: Raphaël Troncy <raphael.troncy@eurecom.fr>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 08:27:33 +0100
- To: Kerry Taylor <kerry.taylor@anu.edu.au>, "janowicz@ucsb.edu" <janowicz@ucsb.edu>, Rob Atkinson <rob@metalinkage.com.au>, Raúl García Castro <rgarcia@fi.upm.es>, "public-sdw-wg@w3.org" <public-sdw-wg@w3.org>
[Note: I have read the entire thread, this email and the subsequent ones.] > On the other hand, a far more simple view would have the core introduce > the most used (“core”) concepts of ssn and these are imported and > further refined in the more complex part of ssn. There need be no > distinction in meaning at all --- only that the more complex ontology > axiomatically constrains the meaning wheras the simpler core just > asserts the mean via rdfs:comment. That is what I have been expecting > for the past year. ... and so do I! > Same definitions, but the core is just smaller. I think this is what > Raul is saying and I *heartily* agree. Simple, consistent, easy to use. +1. To come back to the example being discussed, if everyone agrees that sosa:Platform = ssn:Platform, then why do you define sosa:Platform in the first place? Just use ssn:Platform (with updated annotation properties to clarify meaning, usage, etc.). 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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