Re: Core Ontology on Events -- Re: looking for an event ontology/vocabulary

2009-08-05 Thread Gian Piero ZARRI
Dear Yves, The paper on NKRL you mention is a quite old one. With respect now to OntoMedia, this work is regularly mentioned at page 14 of my book, in particular [Tuffield et al., 2006] and the site eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/12695. May be, that is not very much... Best regards, G.P. Zarri

Re: Core Ontology on Events -- Re: looking for an event ontology/vocabulary

2009-08-05 Thread Gian Piero Zarri
Misha, Yves, In reality, an RDF 'translation' of an (old) NKRL version has been carried out in the framework of an (old) European project - see, e.g., a relatively detailed description in Zarri, G.P. (2000) “A Conceptual Model for Capturing and Reusing Knowledge in Business-Oriented Domains”,

Re: Core Ontology on Events -- Re: looking for an event ontology/vocabulary

2009-08-05 Thread François Scharffe
Hi all, Slightly on the side of the topic, I would like to draw your attention to the ontology patterns workshop at next ISWC (see the recent call from Aldo and [1]). That's the perfect place to discuss modeling topics like the one discussed on this thread. The workshop includes a call for pa

Re: Core Ontology on Events -- Re: looking for an event ontology/vocabulary

2009-08-05 Thread Yves Raimond
Hello! > I was abroad these last weeks, and unable then to follow this thread with > the necessary attention. It seems however evident to me that, when dealing > contemporaneously with terms like "ontology" and "event", one should have at > least a look at NKRL (Narrative Knowledge Representation

Re: Core Ontology on Events -- Re: looking for an event ontology/vocabulary

2009-08-05 Thread Gian Piero Zarri
Dear All, I was abroad these last weeks, and unable then to follow this thread with the necessary attention. It seems however evident to me that, when dealing contemporaneously with terms like "ontology" and "event", one should have at least a look at NKRL (Narrative Knowledge Representation

Re: Core Ontology on Events -- Re: looking for an event ontology/vocabulary

2009-07-31 Thread Ryan Shaw
Hello Ansgar, On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 1:19 AM, Ansgar Scherp wrote: > It is quite interesting to see this very long thread on events. In the past > time > we have studied many event models (see, e.g., the list Raphael Troncy sent > around). > When studying them, I was very surprised that for ma

Re: looking for an event ontology/vocabulary

2009-07-31 Thread Ryan Shaw
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 4:30 AM, Simon Reinhardt wrote: > I just went by what I saw missing at http://linkedevents.org/ontology/ - and > there both the HTML and the RDF/XML documents map "only" to DC, CIDOC-CRM, > the Event Ontology and DOLCE+DnS Ultralite. Yes, this is true. Although we discuss

Re: looking for an event ontology/vocabulary

2009-07-31 Thread Simon Reinhardt
Raphaël Troncy wrote: Some other ontologies which you might be interested in for mapping are BIO [1] and OntoMedia ([2] is a good starting point - this group in general might be interesting for you). And other ontologies have been proposed in other posts such as CIDOC-CRM. http://linkedevents

Re: Core Ontology on Events -- Re: looking for an event ontology/vocabulary

2009-07-31 Thread Yves Raimond
Hello! > It is quite interesting to see this very long thread on events. In the past > time > we have studied many event models (see, e.g., the list Raphael Troncy sent > around). > When studying them, I was very surprised that for many of them no foundational > literature was studied (philosoph

Core Ontology on Events -- Re: looking for an event ontology/vocabulary

2009-07-31 Thread Ansgar Scherp
Dear all It is quite interesting to see this very long thread on events. In the past time we have studied many event models (see, e.g., the list Raphael Troncy sent around). When studying them, I was very surprised that for many of them no foundational literature was studied (philosophy, linguis

Re: looking for an event ontology/vocabulary

2009-07-30 Thread Raphaël Troncy
Some other ontologies which you might be interested in for mapping are BIO [1] and OntoMedia ([2] is a good starting point - this group in general might be interesting for you). And other ontologies have been proposed in other posts such as CIDOC-CRM. http://linkedevents.org/ontology/ contains

Re: looking for an event ontology/vocabulary

2009-07-30 Thread Pat Hayes
On Jul 30, 2009, at 9:14 AM, Bernhard Haslhofer wrote: ...So my advice for the LOD context: keep it simple and try to find another vocabulary/ontology or refine an existing one. +1. Couldn't put it better myself :-) Pat Hayes IHM

Re: looking for an event ontology/vocabulary

2009-07-30 Thread Bernhard Haslhofer
we have been working with the CRM in the past so I feel like commenting on that: On Jul 30, 2009, at 2:53 PM, Simon Reinhardt wrote: Richard Light wrote: Another ontology/vocabulary which is centred around events is the CIDOC CRM (Conceptual Reference Model). [1] It is "a formal ontology

Re: looking for an event ontology/vocabulary

2009-07-30 Thread Simon Reinhardt
Ryan Shaw wrote: Our primary interest is in events as reported in news or represented in historical narrative, which is quite different from, e.g., a scientific notion of an event as a well-defined process or as part of a causal mechanism. I think there is probably room for several different even

Re: looking for an event ontology/vocabulary

2009-07-30 Thread Sean Gillies
On Jul 30, 2009, at 2:34 PM, Richard Light wrote: In message , Sean Gillies writes There's much to like about CRM -- not the least of which is the active and helpful community -- but I've concluded that it's overly normalized for what I'm trying to do, which is to link data about ancie

Re: looking for an event ontology/vocabulary

2009-07-30 Thread Simon Reinhardt
Richard Light wrote: Another ontology/vocabulary which is centred around events is the CIDOC CRM (Conceptual Reference Model). [1] It is "a formal ontology intended to facilitate the integration, mediation and interchange of heterogeneous cultural heritage information", and comes out of the m

Re: looking for an event ontology/vocabulary

2009-07-30 Thread Michael Hausenblas
rom: Simon Reinhardt > Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:36:02 +0200 > To: Linked Data community > Cc: Linked Data community > Subject: Re: looking for an event ontology/vocabulary > Resent-From: Linked Data community > Resent-Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:37:00 + > > Michael Haus

Re: looking for an event ontology/vocabulary

2009-07-30 Thread Simon Reinhardt
Michael Hausenblas wrote: Ryan, http://linkedevents.org/ontology/Event and it 404s ... Apologies, that should be fixed now. Thanks. Sorted ;) I'm not quite sure if it's sorted yet. When I do curl -v -I -H "Accept: application/rdf+xml" http://linkedevents.org/ontology/Event I get an H

Re: looking for an event ontology/vocabulary

2009-07-30 Thread Richard Light
In message , Sean Gillies writes There's much to like about CRM -- not the least of which is the active and helpful community -- but I've concluded that it's overly normalized for what I'm trying to do, which is to link data about ancient inscriptions to data about places of the classical wo

Re: looking for an event ontology/vocabulary

2009-07-30 Thread Sean Gillies
On Jul 30, 2009, at 8:17 AM, Ryan Shaw wrote: On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 10:48 PM, Richard Light wrote: Another ontology/vocabulary which is centred around events is the CIDOC CRM (Conceptual Reference Model). [1] It is "a formal ontology intended to facilitate the integration, mediation and

Re: looking for an event ontology/vocabulary

2009-07-30 Thread Richard Light
In message , Ryan Shaw writes We discuss the CIDOC CRM extensively in our tech report, which I will post a link to here as soon as it is available. I personally am of the opinion that it is overengineered for Linked Data purposes. But I am willing to be convinced otherwise. In any case, though

Re: looking for an event ontology/vocabulary

2009-07-29 Thread Ryan Shaw
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Michael Hausenblas wrote: > Since this works now, I've got a question: what is the versioning policy > you're using? You obviously have a time-labelled namespace > (http://linkedevents.org/ontology/2009-07-28/) and indeed this resolves to > this one: > > curl -H "

Re: looking for an event ontology/vocabulary

2009-07-29 Thread Michael Hausenblas
senblas > Cc: Raphaël Troncy , Lynda Hardman > , Linked Data community > Subject: Re: looking for an event ontology/vocabulary > > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 10:49 PM, Michael > Hausenblas wrote: > >> So, I'm trying to check how linked dataish it is. First class I pick:

Re: looking for an event ontology/vocabulary

2009-07-29 Thread Ryan Shaw
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 10:48 PM, Richard Light wrote: > Another ontology/vocabulary which is centred around events is the CIDOC CRM > (Conceptual Reference Model). [1]  It is "a formal ontology intended to > facilitate the integration, mediation and interchange of heterogeneous > cultural heritag

Re: looking for an event ontology/vocabulary

2009-07-29 Thread Ryan Shaw
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 10:49 PM, Michael Hausenblas wrote: > So, I'm trying to check how linked dataish it is. First class I pick: > > http://linkedevents.org/ontology/Event > > and it 404s ... > > Maybe fix that and then we continue? Apologies, that should be fixed now.

Re: looking for an event ontology/vocabulary

2009-07-29 Thread Richard Light
In message <82593ac00907291409t57507d29u54a5d37a1906...@mail.gmail.com>, Yves Raimond writes The disjoint statement between agent and factor defines factors as something that doesn't have an active role in the event. But are necessary for the event to take place? Or play a significant role in

Re: looking for an event ontology/vocabulary

2009-07-29 Thread Michael Hausenblas
; To: Linked Data community > Cc: Raphaël Troncy , Lynda Hardman > > Subject: Re: looking for an event ontology/vocabulary > Resent-From: Linked Data community > Resent-Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:39:34 + > > My colleagues Raphaël Troncy and Lynda Hardman and I have recently

Re: looking for an event ontology/vocabulary

2009-07-29 Thread Ryan Shaw
My colleagues Raphaël Troncy and Lynda Hardman and I have recently published an event ontology which is heavily based on Yves' event ontology but which tries to address some of the clarity issues that Pat has raised. You can find it at http://linkedevents.org/ontology/ There is an accompanying te

Re: looking for an event ontology/vocabulary

2009-07-29 Thread Pat Hayes
On Jul 29, 2009, at 4:09 PM, Yves Raimond wrote: The disjoint statement between agent and factor defines factors as something that doesn't have an active role in the event. But are necessary for the event to take place? Or play a significant role in the event, so that if they were not prese

Re: looking for an event ontology/vocabulary

2009-07-29 Thread Yves Raimond
>> The disjoint statement between agent and factor defines factors as >> something that doesn't have an active role in the event. > > But are necessary for the event to take place? Or play a significant role in > the event, so that if they were not present, the event would have been > different? Or

Re: looking for an event ontology/vocabulary

2009-07-29 Thread Yves Raimond
>> And while the Event ontology doesn't state event:Factor and >> geo:SpatialThing to be distinct (maybe they didn't want to make such >> statements about other people's terms - with OWL 2 they could do this for >> event:factor and event:place now though) I think it's pretty obvious that >> you're

Re: looking for an event ontology/vocabulary

2009-07-29 Thread Danny Ayers
2009/7/29 Pat Hayes : > Indeed. However, it suffers from one glaring defect, which may simply be a > problem of documentation: i does not explain its terms. Documentation is a pretty common problem... In particular, it > refers to a 'factor' of an event, without anywhere saying anything, either

Re: looking for an event ontology/vocabulary

2009-07-29 Thread Yves Raimond
>>> Indeed. However, it suffers from one glaring defect, which may simply be a >>> problem of documentation: i does not explain its terms. In particular, it >>> refers to a 'factor' of an event, without anywhere saying anything, either >>> in the axioms or in the documentation, to explain what this

Re: looking for an event ontology/vocabulary

2009-07-29 Thread Yves Raimond
>> Wow. No need to shout > > Sorry. You pressed one my buttons. I am so fed up reading 'documentation' > along the lines of "A frongleBlitz" is any blitz with a frongle". It is just > irresponsible to write such stuff when putting forward something that is > claimed to be an ontology, especiall

Re: looking for an event ontology/vocabulary

2009-07-29 Thread Libby Miller
On 29 Jul 2009, at 17:54, Yves Raimond wrote: Also, we are perfectly open for improvements, so if you have any suggestions for improvement or better description of terms, feel free. There is even an open SVN (motools project on Sourceforge, in the event subdirectory), where you can directly com

Re: looking for an event ontology/vocabulary

2009-07-29 Thread Pat Hayes
On Jul 29, 2009, at 12:38 PM, Simon Reinhardt wrote: Alan Ruttenberg wrote: On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Yves Raimond wrote: and so we didn't got the incentive to write a better one. Among those examples, you have: * A score in a musical performance * A musical instrument in a musical

Re: looking for an event ontology/vocabulary

2009-07-29 Thread Pat Hayes
On Jul 29, 2009, at 11:54 AM, Yves Raimond wrote: Hello! Indeed. However, it suffers from one glaring defect, which may simply be a problem of documentation: i does not explain its terms. In particular, it refers to a 'factor' of an event, without anywhere saying anything, either in the

Re: looking for an event ontology/vocabulary

2009-07-29 Thread Alan Ruttenberg
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Simon Reinhardt wrote: > Alan Ruttenberg wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Yves Raimond >> wrote: >>> >>>  and so we didn't got the incentive to >>> write a better one. Among those examples, you have: >>> >>> * A score in a musical performance >>> * A m

Re: looking for an event ontology/vocabulary

2009-07-29 Thread Simon Reinhardt
Alan Ruttenberg wrote: On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Yves Raimond wrote: and so we didn't got the incentive to write a better one. Among those examples, you have: * A score in a musical performance * A musical instrument in a musical performance * A piece of text in a reading * A microphon

Re: looking for an event ontology/vocabulary

2009-07-29 Thread Alan Ruttenberg
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Yves Raimond wrote: > Hello! > >> Indeed. However, it suffers from one glaring defect, which may simply be a >> problem of documentation: i does not explain its terms. In particular, it >> refers to a 'factor' of an event, without anywhere saying anything, either >

Re: looking for an event ontology/vocabulary

2009-07-29 Thread Yves Raimond
Hello! > Indeed. However, it suffers from one glaring defect, which may simply be a > problem of documentation: i does not explain its terms. In particular, it > refers to a 'factor' of an event, without anywhere saying anything, either > in the axioms or in the documentation, to explain what this

Re: looking for an event ontology/vocabulary

2009-07-29 Thread Pat Hayes
On Jul 29, 2009, at 4:55 AM, Yves Raimond wrote: Hello! On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 5:28 PM, David Canos wrote: Hi folks i'd like to public a lot of events for a startup project and I want to use a public vocabulary to make it useful. I've found a vocabulary [1] done by Yves, is this ontolog

Re: looking for an event ontology/vocabulary

2009-07-29 Thread Yves Raimond
Hello! On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 5:28 PM, David Canos wrote: > Hi folks > i'd like to public a lot of events for a startup project and I want to use a > public vocabulary to make it useful. > I've found a vocabulary [1] done by Yves, is this ontology the best place to > start with? > I will extend i

Re: looking for an event ontology/vocabulary

2009-07-29 Thread David Canos
thanks very much Alan for your answer. I'm quite bad creating ontologies but I think it doesn't exists what I need and my ignorance tell me it could be helpful to set out a simple owl describing the event concept and its context: Where, when, tematics, description, prices, images, videos, geolocali

Re: looking for an event ontology/vocabulary

2009-07-26 Thread Alan Ruttenberg
You might consider BFO, which covers processes and the things that participate in them, and the relation ontology, which has relations such as has_participant, which relate things to the processes they participate in. This would have the benefit of being compatible with a growing collection of ont

looking for an event ontology/vocabulary

2009-07-26 Thread David Canos
Hi folks i'd like to public a lot of events for a startup project and I want to use a public vocabulary to make it useful. I've found a vocabulary [1] done by Yves, is this ontology the best place to start with? I will extend it in near future. [1] http://motools.sourceforge.net/event/event.html