Hi Bob - Great to hear from you!
Is an InfoService always going to store data or could it be something non-computer related? For me, sioc:Space could be on the public Web or just in some intranet storage - doesn't have to be on the Internet - but I'm not sure what you mean by offline and offline... Maybe you could qualify? Thanks! John On 25/06/2010 15:20, "Bob Ferris" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I'm currently developing the Info Service Ontology [1,2,3,4], which > enables an association of arbitrary resources to its underlying > information service (see [5] for a definition of the term 'information > service'). > Furthermore, such an information service could then be described, > categorized and rated (re. its information service quality) through the > is:InfoService concept[2] and its relations to more detailed description > concepts (see [3] for a proof-of-concept example). > As it becomes more and more important for data/knowledge consumer to > (maybe automatically) select the right/a good information service, which > delivers this information, an information service quality rating could > probably deliver information, which will hopefully help the > data/knowledge consumer to find a good choice. > These information service quality ratings could be done by several > information service quality rating agencies for different information > services (also based on maybe different Info Service Quality Ontology > specifications, e.g. [7] as an interesting information quality > classification). > > Now to the important part, why I'm contacting your list ;) > > How do you think about the relation of sioc:Space ("A Space is a place > where data resides, e.g. on a website, desktop, fileshare, etc. ") to > is:InfoService ("An Information Service is this part of an Information > System that serves data/knowledge/information to customers and collects > it from its contributors, to manage and store it by optionally using > administrators."). > I figured out sioc:Space as the most equal concept to is:InfoService. > However, I still think that the definition of sioc:Space maybe > concentrates on the 'online' domain, where on the other side, the > definition of is:InfoService should capture both domains - the 'online' > and 'offline' domain. > > As already mentioned on the Info Service Ontology mailing list[6], there > are (more or less, so far as I know) three ways for defining the > association/relation between the concepts sioc:Space and is:InfoService: > > 1. :my_instance_of_something a sioc:Space , is:InfoService . # the > association is then only on the A-Box level > > 2. sioc:Space owl:equivalentClass is:InfoService . # this is maybe the > most strongest relation > > 3. sioc:Space rdfs:subClassOf is:InfoService . # this expresses a bit > stronger that sioc:Space is a part of is:InfoService > > How do you think about building this relation? > > In general, it might be enough to define a 'best practice' re. > suggesting association case '1.' for typing instances with a > is:InfoService association. However, I think building a stronger > relation might be better for reasoning options (following the principle: > tell the (dumb) machine as many as you know) and also a bit easier in > defining individuals. > > So, please let me know, how you would create this ontology concept relation. > Thank you for all your (forthcoming) efforts. > > Cheers, > > > Bob > > [1] > http://infoserviceonto.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/infoserviceonto/infoservice/ > trunk/rdf/infoservice.n3 > [2] > http://infoserviceonto.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/infoserviceonto/infoservice/ > trunk/gfx/infoservice.gif > [3] > http://infoserviceonto.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/infoserviceonto/infoservice/ > trunk/gfx/is_-_musicbrainz_example.gif > [4] https://infoserviceonto.wordpress.com/ > [5] > https://infoserviceonto.wordpress.com/2010/06/23/what-is-an-information-servic > e/ > [6] > http://groups.google.com/group/info-service-ontology-specification-group/t/982 > 0211f7fe52978 > [7] http://w3.cyu.edu.tw/ccwei/PAPER/ERP/data%20quality%28JMIS%29.pdf -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SIOC-Dev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sioc-dev?hl=en.
