Le 2013-05-06 11:14, Lydia Pintscher a écrit :
On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Mathieu Stumpf
<[email protected]> wrote:
Now to give my own opinion of the representation/ontology you are
building,
I would say that it's based on exactly the opposite premisses I
would use.
Wikidata Q1 is universe, then you have earth, life, death and human,
and it
seems to me that the ontology you are building have the same
anthropocentrist bias of the universe. To my mind, should I peak a
central
concept to begin with, I would not take universe, but perception,
because
perceptions are what is given to you before you even have a concept
for it.
Even within solipsism you can't deny perceptions (at least as long
as the
solipcist pretend to exist, but if she doesn't, who care about the
opinion
of a non-existing person :P). Well I wouldn't want to flood this
list with
epistemological concerns, but it just to say that even for a someone
like me
that you may probably categorise as western-minded, this "ontology"
looks
like the opposite of my personal opinion on the matter. I don't say
that I
am right and the rest of the community is wrong. I say that I doubt
that you
can build an ontology which would fit every cultural represantions
into a
tree of concepts. But maybe it's not your goal in the first place,
so you
may explain me what is your goal then.
The Q-numbers are randomly assigned (except for a few easter eggs).
They have no relation to the importance of the item they represent or
its place in any kind of ontology.
Easter eggs are cultural bias. In fact, the term easter egg itself is a
western cultural reference. But I think you are missing the point as I
was talking mainly about DBpedia ontology, I was just taking this Q-code
examples to say that to my mind DBpedia have the same kind of cultural
bias. Maybe cultural bias may sound ruder than what I mean, I'm not
trying to "blame" anyone, it is clear that I also have my own cultural
biases, which I don't pretend to be better or worse than any other.
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