Have you considered EAC-CPF? On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Lepczyk, Timothy <tlepc...@wustl.edu>wrote:
> Hi, > > So, what we are doing is establishing the relationships between people and > organizations from a set of court cases where slaves sued for their > freedom. Those interested can get a bit more information here: > http://digital.wustl.edu/legalencodingproject/about.html. We're > interested in people's roles in the court cases, but also their roles > society and the organizations to which they belong. > > Our ontology will either be based of CIDOC-CRM or it will be based off > some CIDOC concepts combined with some FOAF concepts. Optimally, I'd like > to only use CIDOC if possible. To do that though, is it best to include all > of the classes which a concept belongs to? For instance, I will use the > class "person". Is it necessary to include the super classes of "Actor" > "Persistent Item" and "CRM Entity"? > > Best, > > Tim > > -----Original Message----- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of > Alexander Johannesen > Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 4:08 PM > To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Ontology Question > > Hiya, > > > Is it okay to just use the classes I need or should I include the super > classes which they belong to? > > I think we also need to define a few concepts here. What do you mean, > "include"? As far as I can tell, you want to say something like "Here's a > few concepts we're using, and their definition is based off this other > ontology over *there* (pointing)", but that's not always the case, so just > asking. > > Now, Karen is of course right in her take on it, but there's a little > thing that require a bit of focus, and that's how this new ontology is > going to be used. Is it one of these manual labour things where it doesn't > actually require formal definitions as much as a human one, or is it > (however you use the ontology) to be passed through a tool, or more > formally passed through an inferencer? > > > Regards, > > Alex > -- > Project Wrangler, SOA, Information Alchemist, UX, RESTafarian, Topic Maps > --- http://shelter.nu/blog/ ---------------------------------------------- > ------------------ http://www.google.com/profiles/alexander.johannesen --- >
