Re: beyond 'formal' relations: describing relations between scientific and non-scientific material

Dennis

I am  also researching relations


I have found reading about the following useful

1. lexical relations
2. OBO Foundry ontology of relations

 some excerpts from Azamats posts and other writings
http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/2009-02/msg00315.html

however I am much puzzled by the fact that relations are considere as
'properties' of  class
while in my view , or as in 'entity/relationship' representatio
relations are a different primitive type (canonical class?) by  themselves,
I would be intersted in a clarification of why/how is that so


Paola




On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Dennis - UT <dv.eprints@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We are currently working on a repository for OAI ORE resource maps (
> http://www.openarchives.org/ore/1.0/toc). In this system we are trying to
> describe relations between scientific publications and other material (both
> scientific and non-scientific). To do this we are planning to use several
> (RDF) vocabularies / ontologies.
>
> A question is: how to cope with diversity in scientific disciplines and
> communication on the one hand and standardizing relation descriptions when
> aggregating publications about a certain topic? Vocabularies now available
> (FOAF, DCterms, etc) mainly restrict to formal relations and do not include
> relations concerning the content in a more detailed way than for instance
> 'dc:subject'. This may be the consequence of the diversity in scientific
> semantics. Is there any literature/article about this issue?
>
> An example case is describing relations between scientific publications and
> their 'application'. For example: a publication proposes certain changes,
> government policy makers later decide to create actual policies based on
> this information. So far we didn’t find any existing solution to describe
> such relations. Suggestions on existing vocabularies to describe / annotate
> such relations are very welcome, thanks!
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Dennis
> University of Twente
>
>


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