Hello,
I wanted to ask about an approach to setting up a form for using
TBC with a particular RDF file that I am editing. As is often the case, I
am using several ontologies. However, I don't use every property or class
from the ontology. Sometimes it can be difficult just working with one
ontology. For example, the Resume/CV vocabulary has various different
classes for a CV that relates to a person. I might want to add a skill and
then associate it with a course or training. That particular vocabulary
doesn't include a way to directly relate a course with a skill or a set of
topics taught in the training. In addition, the topic or topics of the
course are skos:Concepts which are described by foaf:Documents. This
presents quite a challenge for creating a workflow, especially when one
realizes that some of these classes are sub-classes of others.
1) Can one remove and reorganize the properties that relate to a Class.
For example, if one was entering Course or Education information I'd want
the ov:teaches property to always be there for each Instance of Course that
I am adding. Or if I was describing a person using FOAF:Person, that is
editing an instance of a Person.I may not need to see every property for a
foaf:Person
2) If I am working with several vocabularies, such as dc, schema.org and
bibo (for bibliography information) to store information about publications
associated with an online magazine, and the people that are published in
the magazine. So, I want to enter information about a Poem that is
published. It would be nice to have the properties from dc, bibo, and
schema.org together on one form instead of having to first use the
schema.org class and it's properties then go and create an additional entry
or instance using the DC classes and properties. Is there a way to do this?
Next, if I have a vocabulary that I am using such as the Relationships
vocabulary, but I need to add no more than 2 or 3 properties that are not
part of the official REL vocabulary, I will obviously need to publish my
own version of REL, REL-E, for REL extended. Do I publish my ontology with
just the 3 properties and reference the original REL ontology, or do I
include the original ontology and just add my own 3 properties (Or
classes). I'm just wondering about a best practice for publishing an
ontology that is only slightly modified, in some cases one might only need
one additional property. So, does one publish that modified ontology with
just the one property in it - and I suppose a link to the original
vocabulary/ontology. Of course, if one did publish the new
ontology/vocabulary with a new namespace others may not be able to use that
data because they do not recognize the new namespace.
Lastly, if I am given an ontology to edit, and it is in owl format with the
owl file extension... I'm not sure how to open it in TBC so that it is easy
to visualize, and the proper prefixes or even full URIs are there. I was
able to do this in Protege editor but I did something wrong in TBC. I
created a project for this first then I put the ontology into the project
folder and then I opened it by double clicking on it in TBC. Maybe I need
to create a base file and then import the ontology into it, instead of just
dropping it into the project folder and then opening it as is.
Thanks,
Bruce
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