Hi Mike, you’re probably talking of a “framing” ontology that “unifies" sets of properties for certain entities? This Infobox-like structure is missing from DBpedia for example, as I described in [1]. Probably the oldest ontology pattern for that is Descriptions and Situations [2], also embedded in the DOLCE+DnS-Ultralight (DUL) foundational ontology [3]. Aldo
[1] http://www.slideshare.net/gangemi/isemantics-key [2] http://www.ontologydesignpatterns.org/cp/owl/descriptionandsituation.owl [3] http://www.ontologydesignpatterns.org/ont/dul/DUL.owl On Jul 11, 2014, at 4:42:26 AM , Mike Bergman <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I have been looking for an ontology that organizes and describes possible > characteristics or attributes for common entity types, such as what might be > found in a key-value pair in Wikipedia infoboxes and such. > > I have had no luck finding such a vocabulary or ontology. The closest > representation I found was one related to sensors and the Internet of Things > (IoT) [1]. The Wolfram Language also has an interesting structure around > units [2]. Biperpedia has recently been discussed by Google [3], but no > actual ontology or structure yet appears available for inspection. > > Does anyone know of a general ontology for capturing record/entity attributes > or characteristics (properties)? I know some domains like biomedical may have > partial approaches to this, but I'm seeking something that has as its intent > being a general-purpose attribute reference. > > Suggestions or pointers would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, Mike > > [1] > http://eprints.eemcs.utwente.nl/23734/01/CICARE2013_-_Brandt_et_al_-_Semantic_interoperability_in_sensor_applications_-_final_version.pdf > [2] http://reference.wolfram.com/language/guide/Units.html > [3] http://infolab.stanford.edu/~euijong/biperpedia.pdf >
