Re: [foaf-dev] Birth/death dates and places in the Bio vocab

Am 01.10.2010 15:23, schrieb Alexandre Passant:
> Hi Ian, all
>
> While the Bio vocabulary [1] provides classes for main life events, from where we can use dc:created / geonames:locatedIn to model dates and places it happened, I'd find useful to get simple properties for:
>
> - birthDate
> - deathDate
> - birthPlace
> - deathPlace
>
> 2 first ones would be datatype properties, last one object property.
> There are similar ones in DBpedia exports of persons, but I'd rather having them in this bio-related vocab.
>
> Any opinion on this ?

What's the problem with bio:Birth[1], e.g.

_:e a bio:Birth
     ; dc:date "1879-03-14"
     ; bio:place <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Ulm> # or event:place
     .

and bio:Death[2], e.g.

_:e a bio:Death
     ; dc:date "1955-04-18"
     ; bio:place <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Princeton,_New_Jersey> # 
or event:place
     .

?

bio:Event[3] (the super class of bio:Birth and bio:Death) is aligned to 
event:Event[4] and follows thereby, a quite good, multiple purpose event 
concept, which has the chance to become a de-facto standard for event 
modelling.
It might be good, if DBPedia would rather use concepts and properties of 
domain specific ontologies, e.g. the Bio Vocabulary for modelling the 
mentioned use case, then using their self defined modelling.
One can probably also apply the Property Reification Vocabulary[5] here?

Cheers,


Bob

[1] http://vocab.org/bio/0.1/.html#Birth
[2] http://vocab.org/bio/0.1/.html#Death
[3] http://vocab.org/bio/0.1/.html#Event
[4] http://motools.sourceforge.net/event/event.html#Event
[5] http://purl.org/ontology/prv/propertyreification.html