On Jul 29, 2009, at 4:55 AM, Yves Raimond wrote:
Hello!
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 5:28 PM, David Canos<[email protected]>
wrote:
Hi folks
i'd like to public a lot of events for a startup project and I want
to use a
public vocabulary to make it useful.
I've found a vocabulary [1] done by Yves, is this ontology the best
place to
start with?
I will extend it in near future.
[1] http://motools.sourceforge.net/event/event.html
[1] is really good :-) It's quite simple,
Indeed. However, it suffers from one glaring defect, which may simply
be a problem of documentation: i does not explain its terms. In
particular, it refers to a 'factor' of an event, without anywhere
saying anything, either in the axioms or in the documentation, to
explain what this strange term is supposed to mean. It is not normal
English usage to refer to a 'factor' of an event, so ordinary English
usage is no guide. The documentation at
http://motools.sourceforge.net/event/event.html#term_Factor
says an event:Factor is 'everything used as a factor in an event',
which is completely useless as it provides no explanatory information
whatsoever. If an explanation of event:Foodle was that it described
all the foodles of an event, that would be similarly useless as
documentation. Can you say WHAT YOU MEAN by a 'factor'? If that is too
much to ask, can you give some EXAMPLES both of factors and of non-
factors of an event? It is not enough to only give examples, as this
does not help the reader understand the limits of your conceptual
idea. For example, can something be both and agent and a factor in an
event? (Can you say, briefly, why or why not?) And so on. I know this
is not easy, and it may be impossible to give a 'definition' of the
term, but surely you can give SOME guidance to the user, if you are
claiming that this is so simple and obvious to use in such a wide
range of applications.
and has been used in quite a
variety of context already, from music data to activities data. Also,
it is really simple, so really easy to grasp and extend.
RIght now it is impossible to grasp, and I would have no confidence
that any two extensions would be consistent.
Pat
If you want
example of last.fm events described using this ontology, take a look
at the recommended events in the http://dbtune.org/last-fm/ wrapper.
Cheers,
y
thanks in advance
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