Homework assigned to me to add a notion of concept schemes / context to the 
scope note.  Agreement at Paris SIG that this could go into CRMsci and thus 
“Oxx is conceptually greater than”

Proposed modification to the scope note:

This property allows an instance of E55 Type from a particular concept scheme 
or vocabulary to be declared as having an order relative to other instances of 
E55 Type in the same or other concept schemes, without necessarily having a 
specific value associated with either instance.  This allows, for example, for 
an E55 Type instance representing the concept of "good" in a conservation 
report vocabulary to be greater than the E55 Type instance representing the 
concept of "average" in the same vocabulary. This property is transitive, and 
thus if "average" is greater than "poor", then "good" is also greater than 
"poor". In the domain of statistics, types that participate in this kind of 
relationship are called "Ordinal Variables"; as opposed to those without order 
which are called "Nominal Variables". This property allows for queries that 
select based on the relative position of participating E55 Types.


Let me know if that does not fulfil the HW assignment ☺

Rob


From: Crm-sig <[email protected]> on behalf of Stephen Stead 
<[email protected]>
Organization: Paveprime Ltd
Reply-To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Date: Thursday, January 3, 2019 at 6:49 AM
To: 'crm-sig' <[email protected]>
Subject: [Crm-sig] **NEW ISSUE** Ordinal Property for E55 Type

During the discussions at the CRM-SIG meeting during November 2018 in Berlin 
the problem of dealing with instances E55 Type that have ordinal relationships 
with other instances of E55 Type came up. There were a number of use cases 
explored including:-

  *   Condition report status values like Excellent, Good, Average, Poor, 
Critical where being able to query for all items that were below “Average” or 
“Good” and above would be useful.
  *   Map scales expressed as types
  *   Fire Hazard Ratings
This lead Robert and I to suggest that a new property be created that allowed 
this kind of ordinal relationship to be expressed. The quantification allows 
for parallel hierarchies, e.g. if someone has a type that is “slightly better 
than average but not quite good”, then they could align that with an existing 
hierarchy of Good > Average by saying that it is greater than “Average” and 
that “Good” is greater than both it and Average.

Pxx is conceptually greater than (is conceptually less than)
Domain: E55 Type
Range: E55 Type
Quantification: many to many (0,n:0,n)

This property allows instances of E55 Type to be declared as having an order 
relative to other instances of E55 Type, without necessarily having a specific 
value associated with either instance.  This allows, for example, for an E55 
Type instance representing the concept of "good" to be greater than the E55 
Type instance representing the concept of "average". This property is 
transitive, and thus if "average" is greater than "poor", then "good" is also 
greater than "poor". In the domain of statistics, types that participate in 
this kind of relationship are called "Ordinal Variables"; as opposed to those 
without order which are called "Nominal Variables". This property allows for 
queries that select based on the relative position of participating E55 Types.

Examples:
  * Good (E55) is conceptually greater than Average (E55)
  * Map Scale 1:10000 (E55) is conceptually greater than Map Scale 1:20000 (E55)
  * Fire Hazard Rating 4 (E55) is conceptually greater than Fire Hazard Rating 
3 (E55)

Comments Welcome
SdS & Robert S

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