Re: dataset descriptions

It was primarily to explore the possibility of expressing any arbitrary
division of a dataset, including a version, as a proper subset.
Unfortunately, there is no reason to believe that a subset itself would
have versions, and so on. So, I think we are better served by our original
model, and that arbitrary subsets are datasets, which can be related to a
parent dataset using dct:hasPart or void:subset.

m.

Michel Dumontier
Associate Professor of Medicine (Biomedical Informatics), Stanford
University
Chair, W3C Semantic Web for Health Care and the Life Sciences Interest Group
http://dumontierlab.com


On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 6:19 AM, Alasdair J G Gray <A.J.G.Gray@hw.ac.uk>wrote:

> Hi
>
> I am trying to catch up with what has been going on in the last week or
> so.
>
> On the issue of versions, from what I see in the diagrams you are
> proposing a change of predicate from one that states that we are describing
> a version of a resource to a more general there is some resource that is a
> subset. I think this would be a loss of clarity in the meaning of the
> relationships, which is the power of having descriptive predicates.
>
> I don't understand from your diagrams what you are aiming to achieve with
> the second proposal. Perhaps you can explain it a bit more?
>
> Alasdair
>
>
>
> On 10 February 2014 20:34, Michel Dumontier <michel.dumontier@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>   on today's call we got some feedback from Chris Mungall, Melissa
>> Haendel, and Harry Hochheiser. Chris asked whether (and how), we could make
>> arbitrary collections, for instance, chembl-rdf as a dataset (without
>> necessarily specifying the version). i wondered if perhaps we could
>> generalize our "version level" to a "subset level", which could very well
>> include version subsets.
>>
>>
>> https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/136kVhd2ffx8qauyT2qMJKgKcWu7O-uvZ2tuH6DejCQ4/edit
>>
>> I also wondered whether this subset level description could point to the
>> distribution level descriptions as sources used in creating it, as more
>> abstract than our previous distribution-to-distribution case.
>>
>>
>> https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1qCG2Gl2ZtwuAO2clcya5q067FxPFs7UAHiIk18xzEcY/edit
>>
>>  what do you think?
>>
>> m.
>>
>>
>> Michel Dumontier
>> Associate Professor of Medicine (Biomedical Informatics), Stanford
>> University
>> Chair, W3C Semantic Web for Health Care and the Life Sciences Interest
>> Group
>> http://dumontierlab.com
>>
>
>