- From: Martin Hepp <martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org>
- Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 21:41:24 +0200
- To: Renato Iannella <ri@semanticidentity.com>
- Cc: semantic-web@w3.org
Hi Renato, Thanks! The reason for "mileageFromOdometer" is that the most popular term for that in the US is "mileage", which unfortunately is also used for the distance per amount of fuel. So I had to disambiguate while still using a term that automative domain experts would search for. "readingFromOdometer" is a better term, but I fear that it will not be intuitive for US-based Web developers, and the US market for cars is likely a major target audience for the ontology. > And why isn't the MotorizedBicycle a subclass of Bicycle since the > latter includes "small combustion or electric engine"? Hm - in Germany, most motorized bicycles are pretty far from real bicycles. They are actually semi-motorbikes. You cannot reasonably ride them without using the motor, except for starting the engine or in extreme emergencies. So when you search for a bike, you will not want to see a motorized one. Bikes with small motors (see novel ones with electric engines), on the contrary, are still close to bikes. You can ride them with the motor turned off. That was my rationale. Martin On 31.08.2010, at 02:31, Renato Iannella wrote: > > On 31 Aug 2010, at 03:22, Martin Hepp wrote: > >> I am happy to announce the first mature release of the Vehicle >> Sales Ontology [1], a GoodRelations-compliant [2,3] Web vocabulary >> for > > Nice Martin! > > One question on naming properties...Since "mileageFromOdometer" can > be represented by "kilometres" perhaps "readingFromOdometer" would > be more international... > > And why isn't the MotorizedBicycle a subclass of Bicycle since the > latter includes "small combustion or electric engine"? > > > Cheers... > Renato Iannella > Semantic Identity > http://semanticidentity.com > Mobile: +61 4 1313 2206 >
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