Hi John,
Thanks a lot for your very fast response.
Am 26.06.2010 03:16, schrieb John Breslin:
Hi Bob -
Great to hear from you!
Is an InfoService always going to store data or could it be something
non-computer related?
I think it depends on how one defines 'store data'. I may want to
illustrate a non-technical view of an/a ontologist/linguist (I'm really
nor both of these ones, however, I think they have a deep impact on
ontology modelling).
Let's find some examples:
- A library is a knowledge base (information service), which stores
books etc.
- A human could also be a knowledge base (information service), which
stores his/her own knowledge
- A book is a (smaller) knowledge base (information service), which
stores its knowledge in each page (maybe one could see a book as a kind
of restricted intranet storage in contrast to the huge internet storage)
More or less every metaphor, which describes something in the computer
world, is derived from an already existing thing in the world (I don't
want to say real world, because what we see in the Internet is also
real, else we may couldn't see it ;) ).
As you can see, all these examples I mentioned above are non-computer
related. However, most of them already exist somehow in the computer
world. Furthermore, you can see that I use two term for describing what
a thing is/could be. That means, generally I see an information service
only as a facet of this thing, which could also have more different
facets.
Another point is, that I would currently primarily concentrate on
modelling instances, which have/deliver a huge amount of
knowledge/information (of a specific domain or domain independent).
Everything that is very small and/or subjective, e.g. personal things
like personal blogs, websites etc. are for this development step out of
scope. However, if one feel free to model these thing, the definition of
information service should be strong enough to also include these things.
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?
With 'offline', I mean non-computer (related) things, and with 'online',
I mean computer/Internet related things. Maybe one have to find
therefore better terms. I would currently vote for the terms 'computer'
and 'non-computer' (as you already used it). That would hopefully also
clarify a bit the scope of the information service definition. However,
if someone has a better one, feel free to propose it ;)
Finally, I'm still thinking that sioc:Space and is:InfoService are
somehow equal to each other, or sioc:Space is a subset of is:InfoService.
Cheers,
Bob
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