Re: ANN: The Vehicle Sales Ontology - Cars, Bikes, Boats on the Web of Data - http://purl.org/vso/ns

A possible difference between boat and watercraft maybe the need to have a
captain ?

carl
a kayaker, wind surfer, diver and  small boat captain :-}


On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Michael F Uschold <uschold@gmail.com>wrote:

> Overall this ontology is just fine, highly suitable for its intended
> purpose.  I do have one [hopefully] minor concern. Why is a kayak not a kind
> of a boat? The classification in this ontology goes like this:
>
>    - Watercraft
>       - Boat
>       - Kayak
>       - Ship
>
> The source of this (IHMO) mistake may be in the WIkipedia entry for
> Watercraft <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watercraft>:
>
> However, there are a number of craft<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craft_%28vehicle%29> which
> many people would consider neither a ship nor a boat, such as:canoes<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canoe>
> , kayaks <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayak>, rafts<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raft>
> , barges <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barge>, catamarans<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catamaran>
> , hydrofoils <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrofoil>, windsurfers<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windsurfer>
> , surfboards <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfboard> (when used as a
> paddle board), jet skis <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_watercraft>
> , underwater robots <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot>, seaplanes<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seaplane>,
> and torpedoes <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torpedo>.
>
>
> Contradictorily, the opening words in the definition of kayak in Wikipedia<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayak>clearly state that a kayak is a boat:
>
> A *kayak* (sometimes generalised as a *canoe*) is a small human-powered
> boat <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boat> that traditionally has a covered
> deck, and one or more cockpits, each seating one paddler<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddler> who
> strokes a double-bladed paddle <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddle>.
>
> I have been a kayaker for 35 years, and every kayaker I know thinks and
> speaks of their kayak as a kind of boat. In the US, most whitewater kayakers
> consider themselves boaters.
>
> What competency question justifies this classification?
> What is an example of a kayak that is categorically not a boat?
>
> Michael
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Martin Hepp <
> martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org> wrote:
>
>> Dear all:
>>
>> I am happy to announce the first mature release of the Vehicle Sales
>> Ontology [1], a GoodRelations-compliant [2,3] Web vocabulary for
>> - Cars,
>> - Bikes,
>> - Boats,
>> - etc.
>> on the Web of Data.
>>
>> It can be used by car listing sites, bike or canoe rental services and the
>> like.
>>
>> In combination with
>>
>> - http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1#owns and
>> - http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1#seeks ,
>>
>> it is also possible to expose ownership ("I own a Volkswagen Golf") as
>> part of online identity data or purchasing interest ("I am looking for a
>> canoe").
>>
>> The ontology recommends DBPedia resource URIs as predefined qualitative
>> values as much as possible.
>>
>> Any feedback is very welcome.
>>
>> Best wishes
>>
>> Martin
>> [1] http://purl.org/vso/ns
>> [2] http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1
>> [3] http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/Own_GoodRelations_Vocabularies
>>
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------------
>> martin hepp
>> e-mail:  mhepp@computer.org
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>>
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>>
>
>
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