It was primarily to explore the possibility of expressing any arbitrary division of a dataset, including a version, as a proper subset. Unfortunately, there is no reason to believe that a subset itself would have versions, and so on. So, I think we are better served by our original model, and that arbitrary subsets are datasets, which can be related to a parent dataset using dct:hasPart or void:subset.
m. Michel Dumontier Associate Professor of Medicine (Biomedical Informatics), Stanford University Chair, W3C Semantic Web for Health Care and the Life Sciences Interest Group http://dumontierlab.com On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 6:19 AM, Alasdair J G Gray <a.j.g.g...@hw.ac.uk>wrote: > Hi > > I am trying to catch up with what has been going on in the last week or > so. > > On the issue of versions, from what I see in the diagrams you are > proposing a change of predicate from one that states that we are describing > a version of a resource to a more general there is some resource that is a > subset. I think this would be a loss of clarity in the meaning of the > relationships, which is the power of having descriptive predicates. > > I don't understand from your diagrams what you are aiming to achieve with > the second proposal. Perhaps you can explain it a bit more? > > Alasdair > > > > On 10 February 2014 20:34, Michel Dumontier <michel.dumont...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Hi all, >> on today's call we got some feedback from Chris Mungall, Melissa >> Haendel, and Harry Hochheiser. Chris asked whether (and how), we could make >> arbitrary collections, for instance, chembl-rdf as a dataset (without >> necessarily specifying the version). i wondered if perhaps we could >> generalize our "version level" to a "subset level", which could very well >> include version subsets. >> >> >> https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/136kVhd2ffx8qauyT2qMJKgKcWu7O-uvZ2tuH6DejCQ4/edit >> >> I also wondered whether this subset level description could point to the >> distribution level descriptions as sources used in creating it, as more >> abstract than our previous distribution-to-distribution case. >> >> >> https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1qCG2Gl2ZtwuAO2clcya5q067FxPFs7UAHiIk18xzEcY/edit >> >> what do you think? >> >> m. >> >> >> Michel Dumontier >> Associate Professor of Medicine (Biomedical Informatics), Stanford >> University >> Chair, W3C Semantic Web for Health Care and the Life Sciences Interest >> Group >> http://dumontierlab.com >> > >