Re: September Update on Sports

Just because something is done in Cyc (or DBpedia, or Freebase, or SUMO, or 
...) some particular way does not mean that it should be done in schema.org 
(or DBpedia, or Freebase, or ...) that way.  This would be true even if the 
goals of Cyc (or ...) were very similar to the goals of schema.org (or ...). 
However, just because something is done in Cyc (or ...) in some particular way 
does not mean that it should *not* be done in schema.org (or ...) that way.  I 
would hope that even if we think that the people behind Cyc are not giants 
that we can do better than otherwise if we stand on their shoulders (or maybe 
on their toes).



The reason to have sub- and super-sports is to be able to talk about sports at 
different levels of granularity, letting content producers describe their 
information in a natural way but also letting content consumers extract the 
information that they need.  There are lots of concepts that can benefit from 
this sort of treatment, from artistic genres to professions to cuisines.



One reason to look at the precise details of how Cyc handles this 
representational meme is to see how a powerful representation formalism can 
provide support for many aspects of the meme.  The Cyc-based solution can then 
be examined to determine better ways to support the meme in less-powerful 
formalisms.


peter



On 09/25/2014 07:28 AM, martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org wrote:
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> On 25 Sep 2014, at 16:08, Peter F. Patel-Schneider <pfpschneider@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> That's the general approach.
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>> peter
>
> Why should this be the general approach for schema.org?
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> Note that Cyc and schema.org have different goals:
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> Cyc is "an artificial intelligence project that attempts to assemble a comprehensive ontology and knowledge base of everydaycommon sense knowledge, with the goal of enabling AI applications to perform human-like reasoning."
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> Schema.org is "a collection of schemas that webmasters can use to markup HTML pages in ways recognized by major search providers, and that can also be used for structured data interoperability".
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> Compare the definition of "place" in Cyc with that one in schema.org:
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> Cyc: "A specialization of EnduringThing_Localized (q.v). Each instance of Place is a spatial thing which has a relatively permanent location. Thus, in a given microtheory, each Place is stationary with respect to the frame of reference of that microtheory."
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> Schema.org: "Entities that have a somewhat fixed, physical extension."
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> A clean conceptual foundation is in general good for schema.org, but it is not the only dimension for judging the quality of modeling choices. How well typical Web developers can grasp the intension of the concepts is similarly important.
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> This is why Cyc may have the type "human that is not an infant":
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> http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx8Ngx4rwROrhZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycB4rIcwFloGUQdeMlsOWYLFB2x4rvVjLpZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA
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> Schema.org will likely not have it, at least not under that name.
>
> Martin
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> Best wishes / Mit freundlichen Grüßen
>
> Martin Hepp
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> On 25 Sep 2014, at 16:08, Peter F. Patel-Schneider <pfpschneider@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> That's the general approach.
>>
>> peter
>>
>> On 09/25/2014 06:51 AM, Kingsley Idehen wrote:
>>> On 9/24/14 2:59 PM, Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote:
>>>> Intriguing.
>>>>
>>>> Is there going to be a non-trivial theory of sports.  For example, will
>>>> there be sub-sports?
>>>>
>>>> peter
>>>>
>>>
>>> Peter,
>>>
>>> How about the OpenCyc description of Sports [1] ?
>>>
>>> [1] http://linkeddata.uriburner.com/c/9C7VWH6J -- Sports
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>>>
>>> Kingsley
>>>>
>>
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Received on Thursday, 25 September 2014 14:59:24 UTC