Dear All,
Here my final attempt to define E91 and to clarify epistemological
positions wrt URI use:
E91 Co-Reference Assignment
Subclass of:E13 Attribute Assignment
Scope note:This class comprises actions of making the assertion whether
two or more particular instances of E89 Propositional Object refer to
the same instance of E1 CRM Entity. The assertion is based on the
assumption that this was an implicit fact being made explicit by this
assignment. Use of this class allows for the full description of the
context of this assignment. The Actor making the assertion may have
different degrees of confidence in the truth of the asserted fact of
co-reference, because it may imply an interpretation of the (past)
knowledge behind the propositional objects assumed to be co-referring.
This degree of confidence, also known as "propositional attitude", can
be described by using the property /P2 has type (is type of)/. In case
different propositional attitudes should be expressed per asserted
propositional object, the assertion has accordingly to be divided into
one instance of E91 Co-Reference Assignment for each propositional
attitude.
This class aims mainly at the problem of interpreting in historical
texts to what particular entity a name, pronoun or equivalent kind of
expression was intended to refer to within a particular passage of the
text by its author. In other words, it expresses the uncertainty of the
creator of the assertion about the meaning of information provided by
another person. Such an interpretation can only be documented with
respect to another reference -- either found in another text by the same
or another author, and/ or by referring to the world known to the
creator of the co-reference assertion himself. To do the latter, the
property P155 <#_P155_has_co-reference> /has co-reference target (is
co-reference target of)/ allows for referring to an instance of CRM
Entity of the creator's world. In a sense, the respective instance of
E91 Co-Reference Assignment using the property P155
<#_P155_has_co-reference> /has co-reference target (is co-reference
target of)/ in a knowledge base forms propositional object referring to
the creator's target entity, since a knowledge base as a whole can be
seen as a propositional object. Consequently, if in a Semantic Web
implementation the target entity is instantiated by a URI, the meaning
of this identifier must be unambiguous to the creator of the
co-reference assignment. Similarly, a URI of another authority, such as
an author catalogue of a library, can be interpreted as a referring
proposition of this catalogue, and be referred to by the property /P153
<#_P153_assigned_co-reference> assigned co-reference to (was regarded to
co-refer by)/ or /P154 <#_P154_assigned_non> assigned non co-reference
to (was regarded not to co-refer by): E89 <#_E89_Propositional_Object>
Propositional Object /in order to express that it does not immediately
represent the creator's known world. In this case, the authority that
knows the meaning of this URI must be unambiguous by the form of the URI
itself.
In contrast, the meaning of the property 'owl:same_as' of the OWL
knowledge representation language cannot specify who's knowledge it
represents and cannot express propositional attitudes. Therefore it is
not adequate to model the progress of scholarly co-reference research .
Examples:
§the assertion that the author name "Hans Jæger" on the title page of
the novel "Fra Christiania-Bohêmen" refers to the same historical person
as the motive of the painting "Forfatteren Hans Jæger" by Edvard Munch.
§the assertion that the author name "Hans Jæger" on the title page of
the novel "Fra Christiania-Bohêmen" does not refer to the same
historical person as the author of the collection of drawings "Til
Julebordet : ti Pennetegninger / af H.J." incorrectly attributed to Hans
Jæger in the Bibsys database.
Properties:
P153 <#_P153_assigned_co-reference> assigned co-reference to (was
regarded to co-refer by): E89 <#_E89_Propositional_Object> Propositional
Object
P154 <#_P154_assigned_non> assigned non co-reference to (was regarded
not to co-refer by): E89 <#_E89_Propositional_Object> Propositional Object
P155 <#_P155_has_co-reference> has co-reference target (is co-reference
target of): E1 <#_E1_CRM_Entity> CRM Entity
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