- From: Libby Miller <Libby.Miller@bristol.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 10:16:34 +0100 (BST)
- To: Aldo Gangemi <a.gangemi@istc.cnr.it>
- Cc: Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hplb.hpl.hp.com>, public-swbp-wg@w3.org
On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Aldo Gangemi wrote: > > At 11:48 +0100 31-03-2004, Jeremy Carroll wrote: > >More on the content of your message about http://..../City > > >Aldo Gangemi wrote: > >>But also look at the file at http://xmlns.com/wordnet/1.6/City: City is a > >>class introduced with all its taxonomic branch (poor practice: if each class > >>is introduced with all its superclasses, the ontology results unnecessary > >>long), > > >I am less than convinced - for a very big, or infinite ontology, this is a > >*necesary* practice (good or bad) since otherwise any use of the ontology > >requires a huge (possibly infinite) download. > > >I am currently working on an ontology for language tags, based on RFC > >3066bis, which is infinite - I was thinking of using a similar approach to > >the one above to give finite views of relevant parts of the ontology, so that > >any use could be achieved by downloading all the URLs constructed with > >language tags actually present in your data. > > >If all you want to know about is City then the City download is a good one, > >if you want to know about more than that, maybe you need the full download > >(wherever that is). > > >Jeremy > I'd just like to reiteratate how useful this is. I use Dan Brickley's version of wordnet for image annotations, and it just pulls down the class you ask for and its subclasses as you say: http://xmlns.com/wordnet/1.6/City I use a very lightweight annotation tool, so any more information than this would not be useful. No suggestions on 'views files' creators though (perhaps this is a usecase for the Data Access Working Group?) Libby > Got the point, it is an efficiency issue. Is there any tool to convert an OWL > (or RDF) ontology into a set of "views files", possibly based on customizable > properties (e.g., "give me only a superclass specification view", or "give me > subclasses and related classes specification view"? > > Thanks > Aldo > > -- > Aldo Gangemi > Research Scientist > Laboratory for Applied Ontology > ISTC-CNR > Via Nomentana 56, Rome, Italy > +39.06.86090249 > > ------------------------------------------------- > This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ > > >
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