- From: Barker, Sean \(UK\) <Sean.Barker@baesystems.com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 15:37:48 -0000
- To: <public-swd-wg@w3.org>
- Cc: "Johnson, Julian \(UK\)" <Julian.Johnson@baesystems.com>, "Chris Holmes" <C.K.Holmes@lboro.ac.uk>, "Chris Holmes" <chris.k.holmes@btinternet.com>
Sean Barker 0117 302 8184 -----Original Message----- From: Johnson, Julian (UK) Sent: 08 December 2006 09:35 To: Chris Holmes; Barker, Sean (UK); Chris Holmes Subject: FW: Call for Use Cases: Simple Knowledge Organization Systems (SKOS) I don't know if this may be of interest... Certainly in the STEP domain, it seems the issue of mapping between different (e.g. discipline) vocabularies is an important issue (or alternative strategy to forcing common vocabulary across all disciplines). Regards, Julian. Dr Julian Johnson Executive Scientist Systems Engineering Innovation Centre / BAE SYSTEMS Warton tel : +44 1772 852963 Warton fax : +44 1772 855715 SEIC tel : +44 1509 635227 SEIC Fax : +44 1509 635231 mobile: +44 7974 428 697 email: julian.johnson@baesystems.com <mailto:julian.johnson@baesystems.com> www.seic-loughborough.com <http://www.seic-loughborough.com> -----Original Message----- From: public-swd-wg-request@w3.org [mailto:public-swd-wg-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Antoine Isaac Sent: 06 December 2006 11:58 To: public-esw-thes@w3.org; public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org; semantic-web@w3.org; public-swd-wg@w3.org Subject: Call for Use Cases: Simple Knowledge Organization Systems (SKOS) [Apologies for cross-postings. Please forward this mail to anyone interested.] W3C Semantic Web Deployment Working Group Call for Use Cases: Simple Knowledge Organization Systems (SKOS) Are you currently using SKOS, or considering using SKOS in the near future? If so, please tell us more by filling in the questionnaire below and sending it back to us or to , preferably before January 14th, 2007. The information you provide will be influential in guiding the further development of SKOS towards W3C Recommendation status. We understand that your time is precious, so please don't feel you have to answer every question. However, the more information you can provide, the easier it will be for the Working Group to understand your requirements. Questions marked with an asterix (*) are more important. And, of course, please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any trouble answering our questions. A FAQ page will be maintained on http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/wiki/UCFAQ, and a description example is available at http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/wiki/ManuscriptsCase. We are particularly interested in use cases describing the use of controlled structured vocabularies in distributed, metadata-driven applications. This includes the use of thesauri, classification schemes, subject heading systems and taxonomies to facilitate discovery and retrieval of information. This also includes situations where two or more vocabularies must be "mapped" or "linked" in order to provide applications using heterogeneous metadata from different sources. However, we're not ruling anything out at this stage, and the Working Group will carefully consider all submissions we receive. On behalf of the Working Group, thanks in advance for your time, Antoine Isaac (aisaac@few.vu.nl), Jon Phipps (jphipps@madcreek.com) and Daniel Rubin (dlrubin@stanford.edu) ================================================================ ================================================================ Questions marked with an asterix (*) are more important. ================================================================ Section 0. Contact and confidentiality ================================================================ Contact e-mail: S. Barker Do you mind your use case being made public on the working group website and documents : No ================================================================ Section 1. Application ================================================================ In this section we ask you to provide some information about the application for which the vocabulary(ies) and or vocabulary mappings are being used. Please note: -- If your use case does not involve any specific application, but consists rather in the description of a specific vocabulary, skip straight to Section 2. -- If your application makes use of links between different vocabularies, do not forget to fill in Section 3! 1.1. What is the title of the application? a) Product Life Cycle Support b) Tactical Situation Object 1.2. What is the general purpose of the application? What services does it provide to the end-user? a) Through life support of complex products, including configuration definition, maintenance definition, maintenance planning and scheduling, maintenance and usage recording (including configuration change) b) lightweight protocol for situation awareness in emergency response *1.3. Provide some examples of the functionality of the application. Try to illustrate all of the functionalities in which the vocabulary(ies) and/or vocabulary mappings are involved. a) Probably several hundred separate functions, including classification of items, classification of information usages (e.g. types of part identifier), classification of entity roles (e.g. date as start date), classification of relationships (e.g. supersedes). See PLCS on Sourceforge.net and Oasis.open b) all attribute values are table driven, including types of action, types of resource, relationships between items, etc. See TSO either at CEN or Afnor 1.4. What is the architecture of the application? What are the main components? Are the components and/or the data distributed across a network, or across the Web? a) n/a - this is a data exchange mechanism between multiple applications or multiple instances of the same application b) ditto 1.5. Briefly describe any special strategy involved in the processing of user actions, e.g. query expansion using the vocabulary structure. a) out of scope for data exchange b) out of scope for data exchange 1.6. Are the functionalities associated with the controlled vocabulary(ies) integrated in any way with functionalities provided by other means? (For example, search and browse using a structured vocabulary might be integrated with free-text searching and/or some sort of social bookmarking or recommender system.) a) out of scope for data exchange b) out of scope for data exchange 1.7. Any additional information, references and/or hyperlinks. See also the vocabularies for C2IEDM at the NATO MIP site ================================================================ Section 2. Vocabulary(ies) ================================================================ In this section we ask you to provide some information about the vocabulary or vocabularies you would like to be able to represent using SKOS. Please note: -- If you have multiple vocabularies to describe, you may repeat this section for each one individually or you may provide a single description that encompasses all of your vocabularies. -- If your use case describes a generic application of one or more vocabularies and/or vocabulary mappings, you may skip this section. -- If your vocabulary case contains cross-vocabulary links (between the vocabularies you presented or to external vocabularies), please fill in section 3! 2.1. What is the title of the vocabulary? If you're describing multiple vocabularies, please provide as many titles as you can. n/a 2.2. Briefly describe the general characteristics of the vocabulary, e.g. scope, size... a) Vocabulary is in OWL, and contains an upper ontology of several hundred items, with many terms defined below the upper ontology. In some cases the upper ontology terms are place holders for local extension. b) Currently as tabular document, with some tens of tables. Some tables have tens of entries. 2.3. In which language(s) is the vocabulary provided? In the case of partial translations, how complete are these? a) definitions in English b) Base definitions in English. *2.4. Please provide below some extracts from the vocabulary. Use the layout or presentation format that you would normally provide for the users of the vocabulary. Please ensure that the extracts you provide illustrate all of the features of the vocabulary. a) Following is a paste an extract from one of the XML views: The following classes of reference data are required for this capability: Identification_code An Identification_code is an identifier_type which is encoded according to some convention. Typically but not necessarily concatenated from parts each with a meaning. E.g. tag number, serial number, package number and document number. Part_identification_code A Part_indentfication_code is a Identification_code that identifies the types of parts. For example, a part number. CONSTRAINT: An Identification_assignment classified as a Part_identification_code can only be assigned to Part Organization_name Error RDL2: The class Organization_name is defined in more than one OWL file: plcs-rdl-rbn.owl:Organization_name plcs-rdl-pmh.owl:Organization_name The definition shown is from: plcs-rdl-rbn.owl An Organization_name is a Name by which an organization is known. E.g. "OntologiesRus Ltd" Owner_of An Owner_of is an Organization_or_person_in_organization_assignment that is assigning a person or organization to something in the role of owner. For example, the owner of the car. Date_actual A Date_actual is a Date_or_date_time_assignment that assigns a date or date_time to something where the date is when something actually happened as opposed to when it was planned or predicted to happen. b) From Word 2.5 URGENCY element This is a proposal, consistent with OASIS description of the civil protection domain. It is consistent with the CAP protocol v1.0 (cap.alertinfo.urgency.code). The code denotes the urgency of the subject event of the alert message. Acronym Level Definition IMMEDI Immediate Responsive action should be taken immediately EXPECT Expected Responsive action should be taken soon (within next hour) FUTURE Future Responsive action should be taken in the near future PAST Past Responsive action is no longer required UNKNWN Unknown Urgency not known 2.5. Describe the structure of the vocabulary. What are the main building blocks? What types of relationship are used? If you can, provide examples by referring to the extracts given in paragraph 2.4. 2.6. Is a machine-readable representation of the vocabulary already available (e.g. as an XML document)? If so, we would be grateful if you could provide some example data or point us to a hyperlink. a) Yes, See sourceforge b) Yes, See afnor 2.7. Are any software applications used to create and/or maintain the vocabulary? Are there any features which these software applications currently lack which are required by your use case? a) Protege b) Word 2.8. If a database application is used to store and/or manage the vocabulary, how is the database structured? Illustration by means of some table sample is welcome. 2.9. Were any published standards, textbooks or written guidelines followed during the design and construction of the vocabulary? Did you decide to diverge from their recommendations in any way, and if so, how and why? a) No b) Inherited from MIP 2.10. How are changes to the vocabulary managed? a) Formal Change Process b) Early stage of development, so no formal process 2.11. Any additional information, references and/or hyperlinks. ================================================================ Section 3. Vocabulary Mappings ================================================================ In this section we ask you to provide some information about the mappings or links between vocabularies you would like to be able to represent using SKOS. Please note: -- If your use case does not involve vocabulary mappings or links, you may skip this section! 3.1. Which vocabularies are you linking/mapping from/to? *3.2. Please provide below some extracts from the mappings or links between the vocabularies. Use the layout or presentation format that you would normally provide for the users of the mappings. Please ensure that the examples you provide illustrate all of the different types of mapping or link. 3.3. Describe the different types of mapping used, with reference to the examples given in paragraph 3.2. 3.4. 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