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ontac-forum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ontac-forum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Roy Roebuck
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Subject: RE: [ontac-forum] FW:
[facetedclassification] Announcing SKOSCore2ndPublic Working Drafts
Hi Helen:
Exactly!
In my work, primarily as a management analyst, I use what I'm calling a
"general ontology" within this forum to provide (through the use of
my GO metaschema/ontology, an corresponding methodology to populate and manage
that metaschema, and a commercial knowledge-modeling and management technology
that fits my technical requirements) a multidimensional (not just hierarchical)
classification of the subjects being managed by my client enterprises. My
approach provides what has been called a “common-ground”,
“backplane”, “core”, “hub”, etc.,
object-relational database application that can integrate the subjects of the
enterprise into a whole-enterprise “intelligence base”.
The "hierarchical facets" (i.e., taxonomies) I use are deep
trees of inventoried classes/subclasses/instances of:
·
Locations (e.g., Physical,
virtual, conceptual),
·
Organizations (e.g., government,
commercial, private),
·
organization units (e.g., staff offices,
program offices, project offices, teams, positions, roles),
·
functions (e.g., executive,
production, support/resource),
·
processes (e.g., natural, mental,
social, mechanical, electrical, electronic, computer),
·
resources (e.g.,
life-forms/persons, intelligence/knowledge/public/encyclopedia, funds, skills,
materiel/equipment/IT, facilities/wiring-closets,
services/Internet/web-hosting, space/office/staff-worker,
energy/electrical/kilowatt-hours, and time/event/schedule/duration serving
roles as inputs, controls, outputs, or mechanism (ICOM) to processes),
·
missions (e.g., collections of
requirements identifying the quantity, quality, schedule, and life-cycle state
of resources needed to fulfill a combination of
resource-role/process/function/organization-unit/organization/location needs at
various stages of a process).
The navigation axes (i.e., relation types) I use are:
·
categorization of a subject (i.e.,
showing up and down traversal of the above hierarchical (i.e.,
class/subclass/instance) facets/taxonomies showing conceptual relations),
·
containment of a subject (i.e.,
showing container/component relations in Concept, Space (i.e., matter and/or
energy, 3D), Time, and Space-Time (i.e., 4D) (i.e., CSTS-T)
·
sequence of a subject (i.e.,
showing predecessor/successor relations in CSTS-T, with attributes defining the
role (e.g., customer, supplier) that the subject plays in a
location/organization/organization-unit/function/process/resource/mission value
chain)
·
change of a subject (i.e., showing
prior-state/current-state/possible-future-state relations in CSTS-T)
·
variance from a subject (i.e.,
basis/derivation relations in CSTS-T)
·
equivalence between subjects
(i.e., full, partial, or possible equivalence subject relations in CSTS-T,
useful for thesauri functionality, identifying/resolving ambiguity of meaning,
and for physical and knowledge inventory management)
·
reference about subject (i.e.,
referrals of one subject to another, as concepts)
Roy
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[mailto:ontac-forum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Arsic, Antoinette
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Subject: RE: [ontac-forum] FW: [facetedclassification] Announcing SKOS Core2ndPublic
Working Drafts
Interesting that you should mention that Roy! Yesterday I was talking
to a customer about faceted navigation - more structure, metadata, and
taxonomies (or ontology if logic is included :0), but it seems best
suited for domain applications or collections, homogenous sets of
entities, possibly NOT a hierarchy, but with the purpose of reflecting
the scope and subject of a classification system. It offers support for
user tasks and analysis.
Antoinette Arsic
Sr. Information Systems Engineer
The MITRE Corporation
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[mailto:ontac-forum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Roy Roebuck
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 8:28 AM
To: ONTAC-WG General Discussion
Subject: [ontac-forum] FW: [facetedclassification] Announcing SKOS Core
2ndPublic Working Drafts
FYI:
For those following the "classification" thread within this
forum, the
following email might provide useful and interesting content.
My suggested General Ontology approach uses "faceted
classification"
techniques to define the context of a subject.
Roy
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[mailto:facetedclassification@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Miles, AJ
(Alistair)
Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 5:30 AM
To: Faceted Classification
Subject: [facetedclassification] Announcing SKOS Core 2nd Public
Working
Drafts
W3C Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group
We are pleased to announce the publication of the following technical
reports as
second W3C Public Working Drafts:
SKOS Core Guide
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-swbp-skos-core-guide-20051102/
SKOS Core Vocabulary Specification
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-swbp-skos-core-spec-20051102/
For a summary of revisions since first Working Draft publication see:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-swbp-skos-core-spec-20051102/#secchanges
SKOS Core is a simple, flexible and extensible language for expressing
in a
machine-understandable form the structure and content of concept
schemes
such as
thesauri, classification schemes, subject heading lists, taxonomies,
'folksonomies', other types of controlled vocabulary, and also concept
schemes
embedded in glossaries and terminologies.
For links to tutorials, presentations, development information, version
history,
translations, proposals, datasets and more see the SKOS Core home page:
http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core/
The SKOS Core Vocabulary is an application of the Resource Description
Framework
(RDF). Using RDF allows data to be linked to and/or merged with
other
data.
In
practice, this means that distributed sources of data can be
meaningfully
composed and integrated.
For more information about RDF and related specifications, see the
Semantic
Web
Activity home page:
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
The 'SKOS Core Guide' is a guide to the recommended usage of the SKOS
Core
Vocabulary, for readers who already have a basic understanding of RDF
concepts.
The 'SKOS Core Vocabulary Specification' gives a reference-style
overview of
the
SKOS Core Vocabulary, and describes policies for ownership, naming,
persistence
and change management.
These reports are second public Working Drafts, and are work in
progress.
We
ask at this stage for feedback from anyone with a potential interest in
using
these specifications, or with relevant expertise. Please send
comments
and
suggestions on these drafts to public-esw-thes@xxxxxx and begin the
subject
line
of the message with 'comment:'. If possible, please send comments
before
31st
January 2006.
The Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group is
committed to
a
public, consensus-driven design environment for SKOS Core, and to this
end
conducts all SKOS-related discussion in public, in particular drawing
on
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This work has benefited greatly from contributions made
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