On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 1:38 AM, Sebastian Trüg<tr...@kde.org> wrote: > The idea is to not annotate the resource itself but a related pimo:Thing. This > makes perfect sense for resources like contacts, addressbook entries and IM > accounts which can be merged under one pimo:Person representing the real world > person.
> However in the case of plain files I am not sure if we gain that much. +1 for making files standalone... But, I think everything should be associated with a Thing. Whether it is aggregated to form a new abstract thing (isPartOf relationship), or whether it is just annotated as a Thing (isA relationship), can be determined with the following criteria: Can it standalone? When we look at an email id, or an address, we immediately think of whom that belongs to. So, they cannot stand alone. So, we aggregate them to a new abstract thing, Person. But, for files, they standalone as they have file extensions (documents, pictures, etc). The only extra information that might be useful is "what type they actually represent". So, we just annotate their type to a Thing (say, Invoice). This will enable people to keep annotating their files directly, and also to give additional meaning to the file (like setting the type of document as invoice, etc) when needed... Does it make sense? Cheers, Hari _______________________________________________ nepomuk-kde mailing list nepomuk-kde@semanticdesktop.org http://lists.semanticdesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nepomuk-kde
