A good question. Forwarding the conversation to Ontolog-Forum and SIOC-Dev lists as their subscribers may also have interesting insights.
Simon Reinhardt wrote: > Hi, > > It is becoming somewhat popular for large ontologies to be split into > a core ontology file and module ontology files (which import the > core). Normally each module then gets its own namespace for the terms > defined in it. I was wondering though if that is too complicated for > users of the ontologies. I have seen confusion of "sioc" and "sioct" > (the prefixes for the SIOC core and the SIOC Types module namespaces) > and when such vocabularies get higher adoption by people not so well > versed with ontologies I can see it happen a lot more often. > > So as an alternative I want to explore the idea of just using one > namespace shared between the core and the modules. The advantage would > be not having to guess which namespace to use. One disadvantage for > the developer(s) of the ontology is that a "local name" can only be > used in one of the modules or core, you can't use the same "word" > under a different namespace with a different meaning. Another > disadvantage is that if you want the terms to dereference to the > ontology files they have been defined in then you can only do that > with a "/" namespace (and you have to set up lots of redirects). > > My questions: What do you think of that idea? Can you see any other > advantages or disadvantages? Do you think several namespaces are not > confusing at all? And what are the main advantages to splitting up > ontologies into modules other than being easier to organise? Do they > justify a higher burden on the ontology users? > > Thanks, > Simon > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SIOC-Dev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sioc-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
