Re: Discovering Ontologies, or *gulp* Making My Own

Hi Steven,

have you looked at https://www.w3.org/TR/annotation-model/ ?
On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 4:47 PM Steven Harms <sgharms@stevengharms.com> wrote:
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> Hello,
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> I am looking to find an ontology for annotating fiction. I'd like to be able to record both facts with annotations e.g.:
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> HarryPotter livesAt "4 Privet Drive, Little Whinging, Surrey" // Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone (biblio data...) page 1
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> and artistic  / textual criticism notes:
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> InfiniteJest beautifulPassage  "He could just hunker down in the space between each heartbeat and make each heartbeat a wall and live in there. Not let his head look over. What’s unendurable is what his own head could make of it all." // Infinite Jest (biblio data) page ...
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> So as to enable searches like:
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> "How many Gryffindors played Quidditch and where were these facts recorded?"
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> or
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> "Who were the victims of The Entertainment in Wallace's _Infinite Jest_?"
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> and
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> "What are your favorite parts of _Infinte Jest_?"
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> Questions
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> 1. Is there an ontology for describing such relationships? I've searched and not found anything. I've searched lists of ontologies in W3C sites but have not found anything promising.
> 2. If it's generally agreed that I've looked well and have not found anything, then I would like to try my hand at making the ontology. This is scary. I can't really tell if I need OWL lite, OWL DL, or full OWL...and SKOS feels underpowered to my needs.
> 3. Granted that I need to make use an OWL technology, it seems like the right tooling is WebProtégé. I used the OSX client but it crashed when I tried to save a file and since were' just munching text, a JS-based app is probably a reasonable interface ;)
> 4. I was looking for steps in starting defining ontologies, but saw Maria Keets' PDF, so that might be a good start. I had the 1st ed. of Sem Web for working Ontologist but gave it up in a move and a foul mood but it might be the right time to explore it again.
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> Thanks for any help!
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> Steven
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> Steven G. Harms

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