Re: RDF* and SPARQL* study

Hi all,

A possibility that could be considered if you see the responses to the
questionnaire do not give you enough/uniform information, would be a
webinar on the approach. That would allow for more discussion that could be
useful for the research going on behind the questionnaire.

Regards,

On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 10:13 AM Antoine Zimmermann <
antoine.zimmermann@emse.fr> wrote:

> While this public response that ought to be private is unfortunate, it
> tells that there should be a discussion about the questionnaire, after
> the deadline for answering it is passed. There's much bias in the
> questions that strongly pushes the respondent to choose certain answers,
> when in reality, opposite answers could be reasonable in certain
> situations.
>
> I'm not going to give any detail and any further comments about it,
> though, until the questionnaire is closed.
>
> --AZ
>
> Le 24/06/2020 à 01:39, Peter F. Patel-Schneider a écrit :
> > I answered the questionnaire.  The modelling decisions in the
> questionnaire
> > are bad - particularly not using xsd:gYear for year dates.  If the
> intent of
> > the study was not to catch these problems, I don't see how its results
> are
> > going to have any significance.
> >
> >
> > Peter F. Patel-Schneider
> >
> >
> >
> > On 6/23/20 10:15 AM, Paul.Warren wrote:
> >> I would greatly appreciate your involvement in a study which I
> believe will
> >> be beneficial to our community, in particular supporting the further
> >> development of SPARQL and related languages.
> >>
> >> The study investigates how people create models in RDF* and queries in
> >> SPARQL*.  As some of you will be aware, RDF* and SPARQL* are extension
> to
> >> RDF and SPARQL designed by Olaf Hartig (https://blog.liu.se/olafhartig
> >> <https://blog.liu.se/olafhartig/>) to enable reification, and the
> querying
> >> of reified statements.
> >>
> >> The results of the study will be published in the research literature;
> all
> >> data will be anonymised.
> >>
> >> The study consists of 15 questions relating to RDF* and SPARQL*, and
> will
> >> take between 30 minutes and one hour.  Some of the questions depend
> purely
> >> on the features of RDF and SPARQL, as defined by the W3C.  Other
> questions
> >> make use of the extended features in RDF* and SPARQL*.  Whilst many of
> you
> >> will, I am sure, be very familiar with RDF and SPARQL, I provide an
> >> information 'handout' which describes everything you need to know to
> >> complete the study.  In particular, the last page of the handout lists
> >> everything you need in compact form.
> >>
> >> The study questionnaire is available at
> >> https://spice.kmi.open.ac.uk/pwsparql/sparql
> >> <https://spice.kmi.open.ac.uk/pwsparql/sparql>.  The handout is
> attached to
> >> this email.
> >>
> >> The study is available for approximately two weeks, i.e. until Wednesdy
> 8th
> >> July.
> >>
> >> The study has been reviewed by, and received a favourable opinion from,
> The
> >> Open University Human Research Ethics Committee, reference HREC/3568.
> >>
> >> Many thanks.
> >>
> >>
> >> Paul Warren
> >>
> >> Visiting Research Fellow
> >>
> >> Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, U.K.
> >>
> >> http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/member/paul-warren
> >>
> >> skype: paul.w.warren1
> >>
> >> 07379 114331
> >>
> >
>
>
> --
> Antoine Zimmermann
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