Where is the parallel cleanup of the ontology happening? peter
On 07/05/2017 08:58 AM, Sebastian Hellmann wrote: > Hi John, > > > On 05.07.2017 17:43, John Flynn wrote: >> >> I have long been curious about the DBpedia ontology structure so I just took >> a look at the ontology represented in >> (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/375401/dbo_no_mappings.nt) as >> referenced in the email below. >> >> I normally start the evaluation of an ontology by looking at the top-down >> class relationships. So, I did a search for the classes that were listed as >> a direct subclass of owl#Thing to get a general idea of the organization of >> the DBpedia class structure. >> >> To say the least, I was sorely disappointed. Here are a few of the DBpedia >> classes that are direct subclasses of owl#Thing: Food, Media, Work, Blazon, >> Altitude, Language, Currency, Statistic, Diploma, Award, Agent, >> PublicService, Disease, GrossDomesticProdutPerCapita, ElectionDiagram, >> Demographics, Relationship, Medicine, List, BioMolecule. I gave up after >> this small sample. It is obvious that the DBpedia community needs to worry a >> lot more about the structure of the ontology itself rather than focusing on >> selecting a new editor. A working group needs to be established to go back >> to the drawing board and look at the DBpedia ontology form the top down. It >> certainly doesn't make much sense as it is currently structured. >> > > Yes, and we are doing exactly that in a parallel process. Ideally, both will > be finished at the same time, i.e. clean up and new editor and automatic > validation of edits via SHACL/RDFUnit in a pre-commit hook plus editorial > guidelines and process . So three example concerns for the editor are whether > we can add labels/comments for 170 languages, how they are integrated with the > DBpedia Template mappings and also whether domain experts can help with > non-core domain ontologies. > > Cheers, > Sebastian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ DBpedia-discussion mailing list DBpedia-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-discussion
