RE: another relevant bit of ontology

Dear All,

 

This is a quite interesting use case, but it's focused more on the sensor data than in the sensor network itself, so in our opinion it fits only partially in the scope of the group (as the group discussed in one of the teleconferences).

We think that the most interesting point is the use of ontology reasoning (in this case using rules) because it goes further than the use cases based on syntactic queries.

 

In our opinion we shouldn't be able to solve use cases using only syntactic queries, because that would mean that those use cases could be solved using other non-semantic technologies. 

We think that the use cases should show the advantages of using semantic technologies, so some kind of reasoning or inference should be necessary in order to solve them (as it is done in the paper sent by John). Perhaps this could be a good point to discuss within the use case work package.

 

Regards,

 

Víctor M. Peláez

 

Fundación CTIC

Departamento de I+D+i

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www.fundacionctic.org

 

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De: public-xg-ssn-request@w3.org [mailto:public-xg-ssn-request@w3.org] En nombre de John Graybeal
Enviado el: jueves, 21 de mayo de 2009 0:39
Para: public-xg-ssn@w3.org
CC: Bob Morris; Matt Calder; Francesco Peri
Asunto: another relevant bit of ontology

 

Folks,

 

Bob Morris and his team at UMass (copied) have a paper in review [1] that seems highly relevant as a demonstration use case.  It describes using ontologies to relate types

of ecosystem events to properties of the ecosystem and the sensors observing it.

 

I added this reference to the Use Cases page, and also to the References page, but the sensor ontology itself may be of direct interest (I don't have a link to that yet).  

 

John

 

[1] http://efg.cs.umb.edu/pubs/SensorDataReasoning.pdf

 

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