Re: Attribute or Property Ontology?
Hi Mike, you’re probably talking of a “framing” ontology that “unifies sets of properties for certain entities? This Infobox-like structure is missing from DBpedia for example, as I described in [1]. Probably the oldest ontology pattern for that is Descriptions and Situations [2], also embedded in the DOLCE+DnS-Ultralight (DUL) foundational ontology [3]. Aldo [1] http://www.slideshare.net/gangemi/isemantics-key [2] http://www.ontologydesignpatterns.org/cp/owl/descriptionandsituation.owl [3] http://www.ontologydesignpatterns.org/ont/dul/DUL.owl On Jul 11, 2014, at 4:42:26 AM , Mike Bergman m...@mkbergman.com wrote: Hi All, I have been looking for an ontology that organizes and describes possible characteristics or attributes for common entity types, such as what might be found in a key-value pair in Wikipedia infoboxes and such. I have had no luck finding such a vocabulary or ontology. The closest representation I found was one related to sensors and the Internet of Things (IoT) [1]. The Wolfram Language also has an interesting structure around units [2]. Biperpedia has recently been discussed by Google [3], but no actual ontology or structure yet appears available for inspection. Does anyone know of a general ontology for capturing record/entity attributes or characteristics (properties)? I know some domains like biomedical may have partial approaches to this, but I'm seeking something that has as its intent being a general-purpose attribute reference. Suggestions or pointers would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Mike [1] http://eprints.eemcs.utwente.nl/23734/01/CICARE2013_-_Brandt_et_al_-_Semantic_interoperability_in_sensor_applications_-_final_version.pdf [2] http://reference.wolfram.com/language/guide/Units.html [3] http://infolab.stanford.edu/~euijong/biperpedia.pdf
Re: Attribute or Property Ontology?
Hi Catia, Thanks for the reference, which I had not inspected before. This seems to be more analogous to something like SIOC than for characterizing entity attributes, no? Thanks, Mike On 7/11/2014 1:57 AM, Catia Pesquita wrote: Take a look at the Information Artifact Ontology. https://code.google.com/p/information-artifact-ontology/ Cheers, On Jul 11, 2014 3:47 AM, Mike Bergman m...@mkbergman.com mailto:m...@mkbergman.com wrote: Hi All, I have been looking for an ontology that organizes and describes possible characteristics or attributes for common entity types, such as what might be found in a key-value pair in Wikipedia infoboxes and such. I have had no luck finding such a vocabulary or ontology. The closest representation I found was one related to sensors and the Internet of Things (IoT) [1]. The Wolfram Language also has an interesting structure around units [2]. Biperpedia has recently been discussed by Google [3], but no actual ontology or structure yet appears available for inspection. Does anyone know of a general ontology for capturing record/entity attributes or characteristics (properties)? I know some domains like biomedical may have partial approaches to this, but I'm seeking something that has as its intent being a general-purpose attribute reference. Suggestions or pointers would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Mike [1] http://eprints.eemcs.utwente.__nl/23734/01/CICARE2013_-___Brandt_et_al_-_Semantic___interoperability_in_sensor___applications_-_final_version.__pdf http://eprints.eemcs.utwente.nl/23734/01/CICARE2013_-_Brandt_et_al_-_Semantic_interoperability_in_sensor_applications_-_final_version.pdf [2] http://reference.wolfram.com/__language/guide/Units.html http://reference.wolfram.com/language/guide/Units.html [3] http://infolab.stanford.edu/~__euijong/biperpedia.pdf http://infolab.stanford.edu/~euijong/biperpedia.pdf
Re: Attribute or Property Ontology?
Hi Aldo, Very helpful references. Your ref [1] (see corrected link below) is excellent and goes to much broader questions of the primitive power of classes and the importance of context (I think that is another way to consider framing, no?) in situating semantic Web assertions. Very useful. And I agree with the DBpedia infobox observations. However, what I am looking for is a reference grounding that would enable descriptive or quantitative attribute properties from different vocabularies and ontologies to be mapped to one another. Two different properties for, say, distance, could be related to a canonical distance reference. Such a reference system should also allow, say, relating different unit measures (e.g., English v metric distances) or possibly allow string literals to be lifted to an object property or specific datatype. The ultimate purpose of such an attribute reference ontology would be to aid true data operability between systems. I also have an intuitive sense that such quantity and descriptive properties lend themselves to an overall logical organization. Portions of Cyc seem to demonstrate this; I will poke further into DOLCE as well. Maybe this is just too difficult to do, and that is the reason I'm not finding any prior work. ;) Thanks, Mike [1] http://www.slideshare.net/gangemi/isemantics-keynote On 7/11/2014 2:34 AM, Aldo Gangemi wrote: Hi Mike, you’re probably talking of a “framing” ontology that “unifies sets of properties for certain entities? This Infobox-like structure is missing from DBpedia for example, as I described in [1]. Probably the oldest ontology pattern for that is Descriptions and Situations [2], also embedded in the DOLCE+DnS-Ultralight (DUL) foundational ontology [3]. Aldo [1] http://www.slideshare.net/gangemi/isemantics-key [2] http://www.ontologydesignpatterns.org/cp/owl/descriptionandsituation.owl [3] http://www.ontologydesignpatterns.org/ont/dul/DUL.owl On Jul 11, 2014, at 4:42:26 AM , Mike Bergman m...@mkbergman.com wrote: Hi All, I have been looking for an ontology that organizes and describes possible characteristics or attributes for common entity types, such as what might be found in a key-value pair in Wikipedia infoboxes and such. I have had no luck finding such a vocabulary or ontology. The closest representation I found was one related to sensors and the Internet of Things (IoT) [1]. The Wolfram Language also has an interesting structure around units [2]. Biperpedia has recently been discussed by Google [3], but no actual ontology or structure yet appears available for inspection. Does anyone know of a general ontology for capturing record/entity attributes or characteristics (properties)? I know some domains like biomedical may have partial approaches to this, but I'm seeking something that has as its intent being a general-purpose attribute reference. Suggestions or pointers would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Mike [1] http://eprints.eemcs.utwente.nl/23734/01/CICARE2013_-_Brandt_et_al_-_Semantic_interoperability_in_sensor_applications_-_final_version.pdf [2] http://reference.wolfram.com/language/guide/Units.html [3] http://infolab.stanford.edu/~euijong/biperpedia.pdf
Re: Attribute or Property Ontology?
Hi Mike, We have done some work in SIO [1] to guide the development of descriptive and quantitative attributes. We have a recently published paper [2] that articulates some of our design decisions, and how we use them in our work. Happy to work with you on your use cases in the context of our public mailing list [3] Best, m. [1] http://sio.semanticscience.org [2] http://www.jbiomedsem.com/content/5/1/14 [3] http://groups.google.com/group/sio-ontology 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 Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 8:44 AM, Mike Bergman m...@mkbergman.com wrote: Hi Aldo, Very helpful references. Your ref [1] (see corrected link below) is excellent and goes to much broader questions of the primitive power of classes and the importance of context (I think that is another way to consider framing, no?) in situating semantic Web assertions. Very useful. And I agree with the DBpedia infobox observations. However, what I am looking for is a reference grounding that would enable descriptive or quantitative attribute properties from different vocabularies and ontologies to be mapped to one another. Two different properties for, say, distance, could be related to a canonical distance reference. Such a reference system should also allow, say, relating different unit measures (e.g., English v metric distances) or possibly allow string literals to be lifted to an object property or specific datatype. The ultimate purpose of such an attribute reference ontology would be to aid true data operability between systems. I also have an intuitive sense that such quantity and descriptive properties lend themselves to an overall logical organization. Portions of Cyc seem to demonstrate this; I will poke further into DOLCE as well. Maybe this is just too difficult to do, and that is the reason I'm not finding any prior work. ;) Thanks, Mike [1] http://www.slideshare.net/gangemi/isemantics-keynote On 7/11/2014 2:34 AM, Aldo Gangemi wrote: Hi Mike, you’re probably talking of a “framing” ontology that “unifies sets of properties for certain entities? This Infobox-like structure is missing from DBpedia for example, as I described in [1]. Probably the oldest ontology pattern for that is Descriptions and Situations [2], also embedded in the DOLCE+DnS-Ultralight (DUL) foundational ontology [3]. Aldo [1] http://www.slideshare.net/gangemi/isemantics-key [2] http://www.ontologydesignpatterns.org/cp/owl/descriptionandsituation.owl [3] http://www.ontologydesignpatterns.org/ont/dul/DUL.owl On Jul 11, 2014, at 4:42:26 AM , Mike Bergman m...@mkbergman.com wrote: Hi All, I have been looking for an ontology that organizes and describes possible characteristics or attributes for common entity types, such as what might be found in a key-value pair in Wikipedia infoboxes and such. I have had no luck finding such a vocabulary or ontology. The closest representation I found was one related to sensors and the Internet of Things (IoT) [1]. The Wolfram Language also has an interesting structure around units [2]. Biperpedia has recently been discussed by Google [3], but no actual ontology or structure yet appears available for inspection. Does anyone know of a general ontology for capturing record/entity attributes or characteristics (properties)? I know some domains like biomedical may have partial approaches to this, but I'm seeking something that has as its intent being a general-purpose attribute reference. Suggestions or pointers would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Mike [1] http://eprints.eemcs.utwente.nl/23734/01/CICARE2013_-_Brandt_et_al_-_Semantic_interoperability_in_sensor_applications_-_final_version.pdf [2] http://reference.wolfram.com/language/guide/Units.html [3] http://infolab.stanford.edu/~euijong/biperpedia.pdf
Re: Attribute or Property Ontology?
SIO looks really interesting! Thanks for sharing. Just to make sure we all talk about the same. Mike, are you looking for bundles of relations and attributes that characterize types or hierarchies of relations and attributes? We are doing the first for geographic feature types (e.g., state) if this would be of any interest to you. Best, Krzysztof On 07/11/2014 10:49 AM, Michel Dumontier wrote: Hi Mike, We have done some work in SIO [1] to guide the development of descriptive and quantitative attributes. We have a recently published paper [2] that articulates some of our design decisions, and how we use them in our work. Happy to work with you on your use cases in the context of our public mailing list [3] Best, m. [1] http://sio.semanticscience.org [2] http://www.jbiomedsem.com/content/5/1/14 [3] http://groups.google.com/group/sio-ontology 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 Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 8:44 AM, Mike Bergman m...@mkbergman.com wrote: Hi Aldo, Very helpful references. Your ref [1] (see corrected link below) is excellent and goes to much broader questions of the primitive power of classes and the importance of context (I think that is another way to consider framing, no?) in situating semantic Web assertions. Very useful. And I agree with the DBpedia infobox observations. However, what I am looking for is a reference grounding that would enable descriptive or quantitative attribute properties from different vocabularies and ontologies to be mapped to one another. Two different properties for, say, distance, could be related to a canonical distance reference. Such a reference system should also allow, say, relating different unit measures (e.g., English v metric distances) or possibly allow string literals to be lifted to an object property or specific datatype. The ultimate purpose of such an attribute reference ontology would be to aid true data operability between systems. I also have an intuitive sense that such quantity and descriptive properties lend themselves to an overall logical organization. Portions of Cyc seem to demonstrate this; I will poke further into DOLCE as well. Maybe this is just too difficult to do, and that is the reason I'm not finding any prior work. ;) Thanks, Mike [1] http://www.slideshare.net/gangemi/isemantics-keynote On 7/11/2014 2:34 AM, Aldo Gangemi wrote: Hi Mike, you’re probably talking of a “framing” ontology that “unifies sets of properties for certain entities? This Infobox-like structure is missing from DBpedia for example, as I described in [1]. Probably the oldest ontology pattern for that is Descriptions and Situations [2], also embedded in the DOLCE+DnS-Ultralight (DUL) foundational ontology [3]. Aldo [1] http://www.slideshare.net/gangemi/isemantics-key [2] http://www.ontologydesignpatterns.org/cp/owl/descriptionandsituation.owl [3] http://www.ontologydesignpatterns.org/ont/dul/DUL.owl On Jul 11, 2014, at 4:42:26 AM , Mike Bergman m...@mkbergman.com wrote: Hi All, I have been looking for an ontology that organizes and describes possible characteristics or attributes for common entity types, such as what might be found in a key-value pair in Wikipedia infoboxes and such. I have had no luck finding such a vocabulary or ontology. The closest representation I found was one related to sensors and the Internet of Things (IoT) [1]. The Wolfram Language also has an interesting structure around units [2]. Biperpedia has recently been discussed by Google [3], but no actual ontology or structure yet appears available for inspection. Does anyone know of a general ontology for capturing record/entity attributes or characteristics (properties)? I know some domains like biomedical may have partial approaches to this, but I'm seeking something that has as its intent being a general-purpose attribute reference. Suggestions or pointers would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Mike [1] http://eprints.eemcs.utwente.nl/23734/01/CICARE2013_-_Brandt_et_al_-_Semantic_interoperability_in_sensor_applications_-_final_version.pdf [2] http://reference.wolfram.com/language/guide/Units.html [3] http://infolab.stanford.edu/~euijong/biperpedia.pdf -- Krzysztof Janowicz Geography Department, University of California, Santa Barbara 5806 Ellison Hall, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4060 Email: j...@geog.ucsb.edu Webpage: http://geog.ucsb.edu/~jano/ Semantic Web Journal: http://www.semantic-web-journal.net
Re: Attribute or Property Ontology?
Hi Mike, Maybe this is just too difficult to do, and that is the reason I'm not finding any prior work. ;) = There is some prior work called science. E=mc^2 means there is no Edge of the Universe 1/4 mile ahead, please creep sign. Ontologists are trying to find the sign, but in the meantime photons will just have to imagine it's there. The rest of us will have to use the (199*(2/2))xQuarters+(First+Last)/2 = 100 Quarters scale: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-lod/2014Jul/0030.html --Gannon
