Re: Time for quintuples?

Bob,

I'm having a little trouble understanding where the problem is, from 
your .ng example you have:

ex:APerson 	
   cco:skill <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Football_(soccer)> ex:CC1 .

ex:CC1
   a cco:CognitiveCharacteristic ;
   cco:topic <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Football_(soccer)>;
   wo:weight [
       a wo:Weight ;
       wo:weight_value 6.0 ;
       wo:scale ex:AScale
   ];
   cco:activity <http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwJRiEpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA> .

I'm failing to see why this simply isn't:

ex:APerson cco:skill ex:CC1 .

ex:CC1 a cco:CognitiveCharacteristic ;
   cco:topic <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Football_(soccer)>;
   wo:weight [
       a wo:Weight ;
       wo:weight_value 6.0 ;
       wo:scale ex:AScale
   ];
   cco:activity <http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwJRiEpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA> .

can you expand a little, concentrating on why the former will acheive 
what you want, whilst the latter will not?

Best,

Nathan

Bob Ferris wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> I thought recently (again) about the handling of detailed descriptions 
> of an triple and hence reification. I followed in the last time often 
> the approach of object-oriented context reification. That means, I 
> introduced a new concept to describe a relationship more in detail. This 
> approach works fine if there exist no property hierarchy.
> However, I designed exactly an ontology[1] with this feature. The used 
> property there is cco:cognitive_characteristic[2], which has further 
> specific sub properties, and the applied reification concept is 
> cco:CognitiveCharacteristic[3].
> Initially, this design should enable to define different cognitive 
> patterns of an agent, which have the same topic as object, e.g. one is 
> _interested_ in soccer, has some _skills_ in soccer and also some 
> _expertise_ in soccer. With the Cognitive Characteristics Ontology it is 
> possible to simple represent these statements as triples, e.g.
> 
> ex:APerson
>     a foaf:Person ;
>     foaf:name "John Wayne" ;
>     cco:skill <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Football_(soccer)> ;
>     cco:expertise <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Football_(soccer)> ;
>     cco:interest <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Football_(soccer)> .
> 
> However, these simple statements do not say anything about the levels or 
> weightings of these cognitive patterns of this person, rather then 
> something about the related activity, e.g. playing or watching, or 
> characteristic dynamics. Hence, one can use the 
> cco:CognitiveCharacteristic concept to represent this knowledge, e.g.
> 
>     cco:habit [
>         a cco:CognitiveCharacteristic ;
>         cco:topic <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Football_(soccer)> ;
>         wo:weight [
>             a wo:Weight ;
>                   wo:weight_value 6.0 ;
>                   wo:scale ex:AScale
>                   ] ;
>               cco:activity 
> <http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwJRiEpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA>
>         ] ;
>     cco:habit [
>         a cco:CognitiveCharacteristic ;
>         cco:topic <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Football_(soccer)> ;
>         wo:weight [
>             a wo:Weight ;
>                   wo:weight_value 7.0 ;
>                   wo:scale ex:AScale
>                   ] ;
>         ] ;
>     cco:habit [
>         a cco:CognitiveCharacteristic ;
>         cco:topic <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Football_(soccer)> ;
>         wo:weight [
>             a wo:Weight ;
>                   wo:weight_value 5.0 ;
>                   wo:scale ex:AScale
>               ] ;
>               cco:activity 
> <http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwO0J55wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA> .
>         ] .
> 
> ex:AScale a wo:Scale ;
>     wo:min_weight 0.0 ;
>     wo:max_weight 9.0 ;
>     wo:step_size 1.0 .
> 
> Unfortunately, these detailed descriptions aren't related to the 
> intended cognitive pattern. In a simple use case on can match this 
> relation via the cco:topic property, which should have the same topic as 
> the cognitive pattern. However, this wouldn't work here.
> Hence, we will need a mechanism, which binds the reification statement 
> to its triple. I tried here three different variants:
> 
> 1. Named Graphs, where every triple and its related reification 
> statement is entailed in a separate graph (see [4])
> 
> 2. Named Graphs, where every triple that should have a reification 
> statement is entailed in a separate graph, and the reification statement 
> is also the graph description, hence, type of both - rdfg:Graph and 
> cco:CognitiveCharacteristic (see [5])
> 
> 3. N-Quads, where the reification statement is referred via the context 
> node (see [6])
> 
> This result let me also think about the quintuple approach again. That 
> means, to be more concrete: a combination of the Named Graph and the 
> N-Quad approach, where the context node of the N-Quad represents the 
> reification statement of the relation represented by the related triple 
> and the surrounding Named Graph represents the "common" provenance and 
> trust information (as these use cases are often proposed as common for 
> Named Graphs). Would you agree with that modelling?
> For example:
> 
> ex:NG1 { ex:APerson
>     cco:skill <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Football_(soccer)> ex:CC1 . }
> 
> ex:CC1
>     a cco:CognitiveCharacteristic ;
>     ... .
> 
> ex:NG1
>     a rdfg:Graph ;
>     dcterms:modified "2010-09-22T09:55:52+01:00"^^xsd:dateTime .
> 
> This would also make the explicitly modelling of the reification triples 
> (via rdfs:subject, rdfs:predicate and rdfs:object) in the reification 
> statement, as proposed in the RDF Reification of the RDF Semantics[7], 
> obsolete.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 
> Bob
> 
> 
> [1] http://purl.org/ontology/cco/cognitivecharacteristics.html
> [2] 
> http://purl.org/ontology/cco/cognitivecharacteristics.html#cognitive_characteristic 
> 
> [3] 
> http://purl.org/ontology/cco/cognitivecharacteristics.html#CognitiveCharacteristic 
> 
> [4] http://smiy.sourceforge.net/cco/examples/N3/cco_-_football_example.trig
> [5] 
> http://smiy.sourceforge.net/cco/examples/N3/cco_-_football_example_02.trig
> [6] http://smiy.sourceforge.net/cco/examples/N3/cco_-_football_example.nq
> [7] http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-mt/#Reif
> 
> 
>

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