Thank you Martin for the addition to the scope note regarding P2. Just to clarify, the easiest way to refer to a relationship defined by the CRM is via the URI of that relationship.
Thus I assume it is okay to do this: _:aa a E13_Attribute_Assignment ; P2_has_type <crm:P14_carried_out_by> ; P141_assigned <ulan:Rembrandt> ; P140_assigned_attribute_to _:production_of_painting . Asserting that the production of the painting activity was carried out by Rembrandt. Rob From: Crm-sig <crm-sig-boun...@ics.forth.gr> on behalf of Martin Doerr <mar...@ics.forth.gr> Date: Friday, March 16, 2018 at 1:05 PM To: crm-sig <Crm-sig@ics.forth.gr> Subject: Re: [Crm-sig] ISSUE: E13 Attribute Assignment Dear All, Here the old scope note: E13 Attribute Assignment Subclass of: E7 Activity Superclass of: E14 Condition Assessment E15 Identifier Assignment E16 Measurement E17 Type Assignment Scope note: This class comprises the actions of making assertions about properties of an object or any relation between two items or concepts. This class allows the documentation of how the respective assignment came about, and whose opinion it was. All the attributes or properties assigned in such an action can also be seen as directly attached to the respective item or concept, possibly as a collection of contradictory values. All cases of properties in this model that are also described indirectly through an action are characterised as "short cuts" of this action. This redundant modelling of two alternative views is preferred because many implementations may have good reasons to model either the action or the short cut, and the relation between both alternatives can be captured by simple rules. In particular, the class describes the actions of people making propositions and statements during certain museum procedures, e.g. the person and date when a condition statement was made, an identifier was assigned, the museum object was measured, etc. Which kinds of such assignments and statements need to be documented explicitly in structures of a schema rather than free text, depends on if this information should be accessible by structured queries. ===================================================================== Here my new proposed scope note: E13 Attribute Assignment Subclass of: E7 Activity Superclass of: E14 Condition Assessment E15 Identifier Assignment E16 Measurement E17 Type Assignment Scope note: This class comprises the actions of making assertions about properties of an object or any relation between two items or concepts. The type of the property asserted to hold between two items or concepts can be described by the property P2 has type. This class allows for the documentation of how the respective assignment came about, and whose opinion it was. Note that all instances of properties described in a knowledge base are the opinion of someone. Per default, they are the opinion of the team maintaining the knowledge base. This fact must not individually be registered for all instances of properties provided by the maintaining team, because it would result in an endless recursion of whose opinion was the description of an opinion. Therefore the use of E13 Attribute Assignment marks the fact, that the maintaining team is in general neutral to the validity of the respective assertion, but registers another ones opinion and how it came about. All properties assigned in such an action can also be seen as directly relating the respective pair of items or concepts. Multiple use of E13 Attribute Assignment may possibly lead to a collection of contradictory values. All cases of properties in this model that are also described indirectly through a subclass of E13 Attribute Assignment are characterised as "short cuts" of a path via this subclass. This redundant modelling of two alternative views is preferred because many implementations may have good reasons to model either the action of assertion or the short cut, and the relation between both alternative can be captured by simple rules. In particular, the class describes the actions of people making propositions and statements during certain museum procedures, e.g. the person and date when a condition statement was made, an identifier was assigned, the museum object was measured, etc. Which kinds of such assignments and statements need to be documented explicitly in structures of a schema rather than free text, depends on if this information should be accessible by structured queries. Best, Martin On 2/13/2018 12:48 PM, Martin Doerr wrote: Dear All, The scope note of E13 must be updated: A) the property type it refers to should be described by P2 has type of the E13 instance. Then it is isomorphic with an RDF reification statement. B) The epistemology should be described more precisely: It describes that the maintainers of the knowledge base are not directly responsible for the validity of the statement. 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