Hi! On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 02:07, Heath Frankel < heath.frankel at oceaninformatics.com> wrote:
> Hi Tom and Erik, > > > > that's two innovative ideas in one post - you must have had a great > christmas ;-) > 1. in the 'languages' space, allow formalisms as well - e.g. "rdf" > 2. the annotation structure, simple as it is, is in fact sufficient (or > close) to support representation of RDF-like triples. > > *[HKF: ] I think we are overloading the use of the annotations for two > different purposes and should look at the distinction made in XML Schema > where they have documentation and appinfo, where the former is used by > humans and the later by applications for things such as GUI directives.* > Overloading or not, the technical structure would be very similar. I don't think the border between data for human and machine use always will be completely clear. You might want to annotate information intended mostly for human consumption (i.e. documentation) by using a small ontology constraining allowed values under certain field names. Tools can in such cases easily show localized human language labels from ontologies instead of the URIs (owl ontologies have multilingual support). However if there are strong reasons to split "documentation" and "appinfo" at root level rather than with the "language" in the annotation section, then of course that would be OK. The main thing is that we need a good place to experiment with some formalized machine readable annotations (or appinfo if you prefer to call it that). Using RDF-ideas to make connections out from archetypes and templates to RDF/RDFS/OWL entities might open many possibilities. While we are at it, what bout the other way around? Is there an official algorithm to convert an archetype/template-node to a URI (perhaps a URN) that can be used to reference archetypes and archetype nodes in semantic web formalisms? If not, then perhaps we should create one (in a separate discussion thread perhaps). I think we have a lot of owl wizards reading this, don't be afraid to dive in to the discussion. Best regards, Erik Sundvall erik.sundvall at liu.se http://www.imt.liu.se/~erisu/ Tel: +46-13-286733 ** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/private/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20110104/0de19c40/attachment.html>
