Dear Francesco, You did not violate any rule. My point was simply that the reduction has already been accepted. The question was about an adjustment of the scope notes so that they were in harmony with the reduced range. I had some concern about the reduction but ended with the conclusion that it is only physical matter that can be measured in the way the CRM measurement is defined.
We also had a discussion in the chat in the meeting about measuring phenomena in a text, the example was the frequency of the definite article 'the' in a work of Shakespeare. I will claim that the frequency is measured by counting the number of the occurrences of the three letter sequence with white space or delimiters on each side in a given manuscript or printed text. One may also count the number of 'the' when listening to a oral performance of a work, still it is a measurement of a physical thing, the sound. From such measurement on may deduce and attach properties to the abstract object. The question is if one can directly measure dimensions of non-physical things like temporal entities and abstracts - may be. May be such measurement will be instances of a class of human subjective decisions and thus instances of attribute assignment? Best, Christian-Emil ________________________________________ From: Crm-sig <crm-sig-boun...@ics.forth.gr> on behalf of Franco Niccolucci via Crm-sig <crm-sig@ics.forth.gr> Sent: 23 March 2021 20:35 To: Francesco Beretta Cc: crm-sig@ics.forth.gr Subject: Re: [Crm-sig] 511 e-vote and you may have noticed that I did not vote - I just wanted to stimulate reflection, and I will not bore you anymore. I will reply Martin directly. Franco Prof. Franco Niccolucci Director, VAST-LAB PIN - U. of Florence Scientific Coordinator ARIADNEplus Technology Director 4CH Editor-in-Chief ACM Journal of Computing and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH) Piazza Ciardi 25 59100 Prato, Italy > Il giorno 23 mar 2021, alle ore 19:50, Francesco Beretta via Crm-sig > <crm-sig@ics.forth.gr> ha scritto: > > Dear Martin, Christian-Emil, all, > > In order not to block a development that seems to be largely consensual, and > considering that my veto apparently violates the SIG rules, I withdraw it and > simply vote NO. > > If the majority thinks that the problem I have pointed to is not a problem > and that the inconsistency between previous versions of the CRM and the new > one in relation to the substance of this class is not an issue, especially > with respect to monotonicity, I personnally have nothing to add. > > With all my best wishes > > Francesco > > > > Le 23.03.21 à 19:18, Martin Doerr via Crm-sig a écrit : >> Dear Francesco, >> >> Your concerns well respected, please let me explain a few things: >> >> Firstly, this e-vote is not about the reduction of the range of P39 from E1 >> CRM Entity to E18 Physical Thing. >> >> The reduction was decided in the last CRM-SIG with good majority after >> considering all pros and cons. >> >> Following our rules, a decision once made by the CRM-SIG can only be undone >> by raising a new issue, providing new additional arguments. >> >> Therefore, the use of the VETO right should not be used to undo an orderly >> decision taken by the SIG. >> >> Nevertheless, let me >> >> On 3/23/2021 3:20 PM, Francesco Beretta via Crm-sig wrote: >>> Dear all, >>> >>> as already stated in the SIG meeting, I'm concerned with monotonicity, and >>> more largely with substantially changing the substance of a class without >>> changing its identifier: E16 remains E16 but "measuring the nominal >>> monetary value of a collection of coins" is now excluded. >>> >> Firstly, >>> >>> >>> So what about all project's using E16 for that ? Not to mention the surface >>> of Places as geometries and so many projects using E53 Place for >>> representing a geographical place ? The surface of a place cannot be >>> measured ? >>> >>> >>> >>> Issue 511 starts from a useful consistency check : "E54 Dimensions are >>> associated directly with E70 Things using P43 has dimension. So not every >>> class can have dimensions, only those that are descendents of E70. >>> However E16 Measurement's property P39 measured has a range of E1 CRM >>> Entity, meaning that while (for example) an E53 Place cannot have a >>> dimension, it can be measured to have a dimension. This seems inconsistent >>> that an entity that cannot have dimensions can still be measured. >>> I propose that the range of P39 measured be changed to E70 Thing to resolve >>> this inconsistency." >>> >>> Because of this argument : "My argument about measuring non-physical things >>> is that it does not constitute an observation process, but an abstraction >>> from observable things. We can always use Attribute Assignment for such >>> evaluations. So, we can assign the word count to a text, without using E16 >>> Measurement." >>> >>> after a quite short discussion (in proportion to the relevance of the >>> issue) we vote about the restriction of this same class to a quite >>> different substance than the long period one. >>> >>> Excluding, e.g. the monetary value of an entity, which is purely abstract. >>> >>> >>> >>> My argument was rebutted in the SIG saying the replacement is Attribute >>> Assignment and algorithms can do the job in the data. I partly agree but it >>> seems to me that, given the radical change of substance, the consistency of >>> the information produced before version 7.??? will be lost. >>> >>> >>> >>> So why then not create a new class, with a new ID and a new substance, >>> restricted in the mentioned sense, and deprecate E16 if wished but leaving >>> it as is for the sake of consistency of legacy information and monotonicity >>> ? >>> >>> >>> >>> Given these arguments, I vote: >>> >>> VETO. >>> >>> >>> >>> All the best >>> >>> Francesco >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> -- >> ------------------------------------ >> Dr. Martin Doerr >> >> Honorary Head of the >> Center for Cultural Informatics >> >> Information Systems Laboratory >> Institute of Computer Science >> Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) >> >> N.Plastira 100, Vassilika Vouton, >> GR70013 Heraklion,Crete,Greece >> >> Vox:+30(2810)391625 >> Email: >> mar...@ics.forth.gr >> >> Web-site: >> http://www.ics.forth.gr/isl >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Crm-sig mailing list >> >> Crm-sig@ics.forth.gr >> http://lists.ics.forth.gr/mailman/listinfo/crm-sig > _______________________________________________ > Crm-sig mailing list > Crm-sig@ics.forth.gr > http://lists.ics.forth.gr/mailman/listinfo/crm-sig _______________________________________________ Crm-sig mailing list Crm-sig@ics.forth.gr http://lists.ics.forth.gr/mailman/listinfo/crm-sig _______________________________________________ Crm-sig mailing list Crm-sig@ics.forth.gr http://lists.ics.forth.gr/mailman/listinfo/crm-sig
