SIO looks really interesting! Thanks for sharing. Just to make sure we
all talk about the same. Mike, are you looking for bundles of relations
and attributes that characterize types or hierarchies of relations and
attributes? We are doing the first for geographic feature types (e.g.,
state) if this would be of any interest to you.
Best,
Krzysztof
On 07/11/2014 10:49 AM, Michel Dumontier wrote:
Hi Mike,
We have done some work in SIO [1] to guide the development of
descriptive and quantitative attributes. We have a recently published
paper [2] that articulates some of our design decisions, and how we
use them in our work. Happy to work with you on your use cases in the
context of our public mailing list [3]
Best,
m.
[1] http://sio.semanticscience.org
[2] http://www.jbiomedsem.com/content/5/1/14
[3] http://groups.google.com/group/sio-ontology
Michel Dumontier
Associate Professor of Medicine (Biomedical Informatics), Stanford University
Chair, W3C Semantic Web for Health Care and the Life Sciences Interest Group
http://dumontierlab.com
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 8:44 AM, Mike Bergman <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Aldo,
Very helpful references. Your ref [1] (see corrected link below) is
excellent and goes to much broader questions of the primitive power of
classes and the importance of context (I think that is another way to
consider "framing", no?) in situating semantic Web assertions. Very useful.
And I agree with the DBpedia infobox observations.
However, what I am looking for is a reference "grounding" that would enable
descriptive or quantitative attribute properties from different vocabularies
and ontologies to be mapped to one another. Two different properties for,
say, distance, could be related to a canonical distance reference. Such a
reference system should also allow, say, relating different unit measures
(e.g., English v metric distances) or possibly allow string literals to be
"lifted" to an object property or specific datatype.
The ultimate purpose of such an attribute reference ontology would be to aid
true data operability between systems. I also have an intuitive sense that
such quantity and descriptive properties lend themselves to an overall
logical organization. Portions of Cyc seem to demonstrate this; I will poke
further into DOLCE as well.
Maybe this is just too difficult to do, and that is the reason I'm not
finding any prior work. ;)
Thanks, Mike
[1] http://www.slideshare.net/gangemi/isemantics-keynote
On 7/11/2014 2:34 AM, Aldo Gangemi wrote:
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
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