Re: Metadata about single triples

2012-02-22 Thread Bob Ferris
Hi Carsten, On 2/22/2012 12:02 PM, Carsten Keßler wrote: Dear LODers, we are currently working on a project for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Geneva to develop a Humanitarian Exchange Language (HXL). Some information about the project is

Re: Metadata about single triples

2012-02-22 Thread Bob Ferris
Hi Carsten, On 2/22/2012 5:51 PM, Carsten Keßler wrote: Hi Bob, At a first glance, your ontology looks very interesting and well designed. thanks, we are doing our best ;) So there might be the (rather old) need for statement identifiers, i.e., a URI (or maybe also a bnode) for

Re: Facebook Linked Data

2011-09-23 Thread Bob Ferris
Hi all, Generally, a huge +1 for implementing this issue @ Facebook! On 9/23/2011 5:14 PM, Søren Roug wrote: If you pull the schema http://graph.facebook.com/schema/user then you'll see they are thinking about making a lot more properties available than what's sent out now. See also

Re: Cost/Benefit Anyone? Re: Vote for my Semantic Web presentation at SXSW

2011-08-18 Thread Bob Ferris
Just an example from practise: http://blog.seevl.net/2011/08/18/about-json-ld-and-content-negotiation/ near the end of this blog post: ... Then, we save costs. - that's it! ;) Cheers, Bo

Re: Squaring the HTTP-range-14 circle

2011-06-17 Thread Bob Ferris
Hi, On 6/17/2011 4:11 PM, Leigh Dodds wrote: Hi, On 17 June 2011 14:04, Tim Berners-Leeti...@w3.org wrote: On 2011-06 -17, at 08:51, Ian Davis wrote: ... Quite. When a facebook user clicks the Like button on an IMDB page they are expressing an opinion about the movie, not the page. BUT

Re: create HTML based on RDF?

2011-05-06 Thread Bob Ferris
Hi Frans, you can try the RDFa serializer plugin [1] of ARC [2] (written in PHP). Albeit, the results do not look really nice by this basis serialization. Generally, you will need customized templates for specific serialization, e.g., this on of FOAF profiles. You can check the ARC RDFa

Re: Labels separate from localnames (Was: Best Practice for Renaming OWL Vocabulary Elements

2011-04-22 Thread Bob Ferris
Hi Martin, On 4/22/2011 6:18 PM, Martin Hepp wrote: So our only disagreement seems to be about having the cardinality info in the label, and I think that, at least for the moment, that is the better choice as compared to the alternatives. I really don't understand why you need this

Re: REST and Linked Data (was Minting URIs)

2011-04-17 Thread Bob Ferris
Hi Ed, this topic was recently discussed in the Semantic Web community [1] and the REST community [2,3] as well. It might be an interesting read re. this topic. Cheers, Bob [1] http://answers.semanticweb.com/questions/2763/the-relation-of-linked-datasemantic-web-to-rest [2]

Re: Minting URIs: how to deal with unknown data structures

2011-04-17 Thread Bob Ferris
Hi Frans, re. URI design patterns, I would highly recommend you to have a look at a presentation that describes how they are doing it at BBC [1]. Furthermore, I asked a question on SemanticOverflow (now answers.semanticweb.com) some time ago that deals with URI template specifications for

Re: Take2: 15 Ways to Think About Data Quality (Just for a Start)

2011-04-15 Thread Bob Ferris
Hi Glenn, thanks a lot for your insightful thoughts. I think, I can fully agree to them. This topic reminds me a bit of a question I stated some time ago on SemanticOverflow (now answers.semanticweb.com): When should I use explicit/anonymous defined inverse properties? [1] (btw, this

Re: LOV - Linked Open Vocabularies

2011-04-01 Thread Bob Ferris
Hi Bernard, On 4/1/2011 3:59 PM, Bernard Vatant wrote: Maybe I missed something, but can someone tell me what the URI of the ontology of dbpedia is? please have a look at http://wiki.dbpedia.org/Ontology Cheers, Bob

Re: data schema / vocabulary / ontology / repositories

2011-03-16 Thread Bob Ferris
Hi, On 14.03.2011 22:42, Richard Cyganiak wrote: Bob, On 14 Mar 2011, at 10:47, Bob Ferris wrote: Am 14.03.2011 11:13, schrieb Richard Cyganiak: The abandoned PhD project type of ontology or vocabulary has no community around it. Therefore, one gains very little by re-using it. ... I can

Re: data schema / vocabulary / ontology / repositories

2011-03-14 Thread Bob Ferris
Hello everybody, Am 14.03.2011 09:28, schrieb Martin Hepp: Hi Dieter: There are several ontology repositories available on-line, but to my knowledge they all suffer from two serious limitations: 1. They do not rate ontologies by quality/relevance/popularity, so you do not get any hint

Re: data schema / vocabulary / ontology / repositories

2011-03-14 Thread Bob Ferris
Am 14.03.2011 11:13, schrieb Richard Cyganiak: On 14 Mar 2011, at 09:15, Bob Ferris wrote: 2. The selection of ontologies listed is, to say the best, often biased or partly a random choice. I do not know any repository that - lists more non-toy ontologies than abandoned PhD project prototypes

Re: data schema / vocabulary / ontology / repositories

2011-03-13 Thread Bob Ferris
Hi Dieter, there are several threads on SemanticOverflow that are dealing with this topic, e.g., this one [1] Cheers, Bob [1] http://www.semanticoverflow.com/questions/1039/where-can-i-find-useful-ontologies Am 13.03.2011 17:15, schrieb Dieter Fensel: Dear all, for a number of

Re: data schema / vocabulary / ontology / repositories

2011-03-13 Thread Bob Ferris
Hello again, an issue that is strongly related to the raised concern is ontology marketing: I think, personal advice is still the best one here. It's horrible to find appropriate ontologies month after intensive searches, because they are hidden well in our universal information space. I

Re: The truth about SPARQL Endpoint availability

2011-02-28 Thread Bob Ferris
Congrats Pierre, well done! This might hopefully become a quite useful resource. Any plans to publish this information itself as Semantic Web Linked Data? Cheers, Bob Am 28.02.2011 19:55, schrieb Pierre-Yves Vandenbussche: Hello all, you have already encountered problems of SPARQL

Re: The truth about SPARQL Endpoint availability

2011-02-28 Thread Bob Ferris
...@mondeca.com Website: www.mondeca.com http://www.mondeca.com/ Blog: Leçons de choses http://mondeca.wordpress.com/ On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 10:45 PM, Bob Ferris z...@elbklang.net mailto:z...@elbklang.net wrote: Congrats Pierre, well done! This might hopefully become a quite useful

Re: Proposal to assess the quality of Linked Data sources

2011-02-25 Thread Bob Ferris
Hi Annika, Am 25.02.2011 23:19, schrieb Annika Flemming: - no redefinition of existing vocabularies - sometimes it necessary e.g., to achieve an OWL DL compiliance of an utilized vocabulary that doesn't fulfil this requirement originally Oh ok, I didn't know that, thanks! See e.g. a related

Re: Is it best practices to use a rdfs:seeAlso link to a potentially multimegabyte PDF?, existing predicate for linking to PDF?

2011-01-13 Thread Bob Ferris
be strict when sending and tolerant when receiving [1] I guess, we shouldn't expect to much ;) Cheers, Bob [1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1958

Re: Is vCard range restriction on org:siteAddress necessary?

2011-01-04 Thread Bob Ferris
Hi, Am 04.01.2011 13:38, schrieb Alexander Dutton: The vCard ontology doesn't give a general property for linking a thing to its v:VCard, which suggests to me that the only way to discover addresses in the general case is when properties in the vCard namespace are applied directly to people,

Re: Quality Criteria for Linked Data sources

2010-12-16 Thread Bob Ferris
Hi Annika, Our aim was to decide on a set of criteria that represent the quality of a data source. In this document, we understand a data source as an access point for Linked Data in the Web. Does this mean that you consider only information services that follow the Linked Data principles?

Re: Is 303 really necessary?

2010-12-14 Thread Bob Ferris
Hi, I found Alternative to 303 response: Description-ID: header[1] in the TAG mailing list archive. Are there any parallels? ;) Cheers, Bob PS: maybe someone has already mentioned this source here, however, I didn't find any reference [1]

Re: Reification alternative

2010-10-14 Thread Bob Ferris
Hi Mirko, Am 14.10.2010 15:08, schrieb Mirko: Thank you all for your helpful comments. First, let me clarify my intention. My question aimed not so much at the (internal) storage of the data, but really on how to publish them as Linked Data, so that they are useful for third parties (= easy to

Re: Reification alternative

2010-10-13 Thread Bob Ferris
Hi Mirko, well the thing is, it wouldn't really work without a form a of reification (in my mind). There are use cases, where people prefer a simple knowledge representation of a semantic relation, and other ones, where people like to get a more detailed description about the semantic

Re: New LOD Cloud

2010-09-24 Thread Bob Ferris
Am 24.09.2010 20:36, schrieb Richard Cyganiak: Hi Bob, On 23 Sep 2010, at 11:19, Bob Ferris wrote: is there a legend to the coloured cloud, which explains a bit the coloured clusters, or did I simply missed it? (it would be nice, if this legend is directly included in the graphic) Good idea

Re: New LOD Cloud

2010-09-23 Thread Bob Ferris
Hi, is there a legend to the coloured cloud, which explains a bit the coloured clusters, or did I simply missed it? (it would be nice, if this legend is directly included in the graphic) Cheers, Bob Am 23.09.2010 10:09, schrieb Antoine Isaac: Anja, Richard, (ccing the Library Linked Data

Re: Vocabulary for Search Results

2010-09-20 Thread Bob Ferris
Hi Bernhard, the Recommendation Ontology[1] provides a basic concept to represent and describe recommendations on different levels of detail. As search can be seen as a specific kind of recommendation (this is especially my point of view, however, there are some similar views especially in

Re: Vocabulary for Search Results

2010-09-20 Thread Bob Ferris
Hi Renaud, your format / search result ontology looks quite interesting. However, it might be useful, if the URI of this ontology (http://sindice.com/vocab/search#) is dereferencable and would furthermore provide a specification documentation. Cheers, Bob Am 20.09.2010 12:36, schrieb

You need it, you want it, you get it ;) - The Recommendation Ontology

2010-07-30 Thread Bob Ferris
Hello everybody, today I like to announce a first draft of the Recommendation Ontology[1,2,3]. As far as I get an overview, there exists currently no ontology, which address this purpose as I intended it. With this ontology it should be possible to associate a recommendation to someone or

Re: [ANN] Uberblic Search API

2010-07-22 Thread Bob Ferris
Hi Tom, Am 21.07.2010 19:46, schrieb Tom Morris: [snip] For developers that means: pick any URI that refers to the entity you mean (any of Scarlett Johanssons above) and you'll be fine. In practice, that is: if you're building a movie applications, always pick the uberblic entity from The

Re: The Counter Ontology

2010-07-21 Thread Bob Ferris
Hi Toby, Am 21.07.2010 13:48, schrieb Toby Inkster: On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:56:05 +0200 Bob Ferrisz...@elbklang.net wrote: How can I make sure that the value of my counter concept is of the type xsd:Integer? co:Counter rdfs:subClassOf [ a owl:Restriction ;

Re: The Counter Ontology

2010-07-20 Thread Bob Ferris
Hi Vasiliy, Am 20.07.2010 14:39, schrieb Vasiliy Faronov: Bob Ferris wrote: The second property of co:Counter is co:count, which is a simple xsd:int based datatype property. Any reasons for not using rdf:value[1]? Not that it would make a lot of difference, but seems like this property

Updates, updates, updates: Ordered List Ontology, Counter Ontology, Info Service Ontology

2010-07-15 Thread Bob Ferris
Hello everybody, Apologies for cross-postings ;) I've updated the specifications of the Ordered List Ontology, the Counter Ontology and the Info Service Ontology. Furthermore, I created a documentation for each one with examples etc. and included into these files also a XHTML+RDFa

Re: Updates, updates, updates: Ordered List Ontology, Counter Ontology, Info Service Ontology

2010-07-15 Thread Bob Ferris
Hi Kingsley, Am 16.07.2010 00:09, schrieb Kingsley Idehen: Bob Ferris wrote: Hello everybody, Apologies for cross-postings ;) I've updated the specifications of the Ordered List Ontology, the Counter Ontology and the Info Service Ontology. Furthermore, I created a documentation for each one

Re: RDF and its discontents

2010-07-07 Thread Bob Ferris
Hi Paul, thanks a lot for your very insightful experience report about Semantic Web, RDF and DBPedia. (more thoughts inline) Am 02.07.2010 17:07, schrieb Paul Houle: Here are some of my thoughts [skip] (4) I'm one of the people who got interested in semantic tech because of DBPedia,

Re: destabilizing core technologies: was Re: An RDF wishlist

2010-07-02 Thread Bob Ferris
Hi Ian, But now people are seeing some of the data being made available in browseable form e.g. at data.gov.uk or dbpedia and saying, I want to make one of those. I don't really believe that people would say after browsing dbpedia I want to make one of those. That's not the User Experience

Re: Show me the money - (was Subjects as Literals)

2010-07-02 Thread Bob Ferris
Hi Richard, Such work can not be realistically done within W3C for obvious reasons. It has to be done outside W3C by the community. I believe that's what the normal/standard web developers (I think Henry Story called them Web Monkeys ;) ) do already, or? Cheers, Bob

Re: Subjects as Literals

2010-07-01 Thread Bob Ferris
Hello everybody, I think the main issues are already discussed. Hence, here are some summarized notes of my thoughts: 1. We shouldn't propagate that a user (always a machine or human beeing) has to go this way and not the other one. Leaving this decision by the user, leads to more user

Re: The Ordered List Ontology

2010-06-28 Thread Bob Ferris
Am 28.06.2010 10:17, schrieb Barry Norton: Bob, I wrote a similar representation in WSML-Flight [1] a few years ago [2], where it was possible to construct an axiom that for a list of length n there should exist unique values for each of the indices 1-n, and no others. I doubt that this is

Re: The Ordered List Ontology

2010-06-28 Thread Bob Ferris
Hi Aldo, Hi Silvio, Thanks a lot, Silvio, for the Colletion Ontology. I oversaw this ontology somehow. Am 28.06.2010 16:29, schrieb Aldo Gangemi: Yes, I like the SWAN ontology ... I remember sometimes ago I wanted to modularize it and submit the modules as design patterns :). Consider that,

Re: 303 redirect to a fragment – what should a linked data client do?

2010-06-26 Thread Bob Ferris
Hi, Am 10.06.2010 14:34, schrieb Nathan: Christoph LANGE wrote: 2010-06-10 13:40 Christoph LANGE ch.la...@jacobs-university.de: in our setup we are still somehow fighting with ill-conceived legacy URIs from the pre-LOD age. We heavily make use of hash URIs there, so it could happen that a

The Counter Ontology

2010-06-24 Thread Bob Ferris
Hello, Apologies for cross posting ;) Here is the Counter Ontology [1], which includes a general multiple purpose counter concept. This concept could be uses to associate any owl:Thing typed concept to (a) co:Counter instance(s) with the property co:counter or a specific sub property of it

Re: Info Service Ontology - 1st draft

2010-06-22 Thread Bob Ferris
/viewvc/infoserviceonto/infoservice/trunk/gfx/infoservice.gif [5] http://infoserviceonto.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/infoserviceonto/infoservice/trunk/gfx/is_-_musicbrainz_example.gif Am 19.06.2010 23:39, schrieb Bob Ferris: Hello, I thought this ontology might also be of interest for the lod

Info Service Ontology - 1st draft

2010-06-19 Thread Bob Ferris
Hello, I thought this ontology might also be of interest for the lod mailing. Initially a Music Ontology issue, later a FOAF Ontology issue and now even with a broader scope ;) I designed yesterday the Info Service Ontology [1,2]. The initial intention behind designing this ontology was to

'owl:Class and rdfs:Class' vs. 'owl:Class or rdfs:Class'

2010-06-16 Thread Bob Ferris
Hi, does anyone know of an already defined best practice re. using 'owl:Class and rdfs:Class' vs. 'owl:Class or rdfs:Class' type definition for concepts in ontologies? (I've searched at ontologydesignpatterns.org for it, but didn't found something). For example the FOAF ontology uses both

Re: 'owl:Class and rdfs:Class' vs. 'owl:Class or rdfs:Class'

2010-06-16 Thread Bob Ferris
depend on your application, use case, practical needs, etc. However, as far as I can foresee, using both rdfs:Class and owl:Class is perfectly safe wrt to RDF/RDFS tools and perfectly safe wrt OWL tools. AZ Le 16/06/2010 12:08, Bob Ferris a écrit : Hi, does anyone know of an already defined

Re: MuSim Ontology problems (was Re: Share, Like Ontology)

2010-06-14 Thread Bob Ferris
Hi Antoine, Hi Kurt, Hi at all from the different lists, Am 13.06.2010 22:13, schrieb Kurt J: Hi Antoine, I'm very glad to have you review my ontology - apparently it had some significant problems! I have some comments on your ontology: 1) related to OWL DL 2) related to the use of

Re: MuSim Ontology problems (was Re: Share, Like Ontology)

2010-06-14 Thread Bob Ferris
Hi, I do not really understand the need for rdfs:Class: owl:Class is already defined with rdfs:subClassOf rdfs:Class (same thing for the properties). So its is a transitivity issue and it depends on the used reasoner to resolve that issue. owl:Class is defined as a subclass of rdfs:Class *in