Der Christian-Emil, all,

I agree in all you say below.

I'd like to mention that we have the issue about position measurements, and data evaluation as inference making in CRMinf. I'd suggest to see these things together for a wider theory.

Best,

Martin

On 3/23/2021 10:12 PM, Christian-Emil Smith Ore via Crm-sig wrote:
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
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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

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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




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