Re: [foaf-dev] Birth/death dates and places in the Bio vocab
Alexandre Passant <[email protected]>
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On 3 Oct 2010, at 14:44, Bob Ferris wrote: > 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 > . > There is no problem per se, I'm just looking for a way to model that without reification. Alex. > ? > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > foaf-dev mailing list > foaf-dev-RyYwo1q5J+qsOXdr9/[email protected] > http://lists.foaf-project.org/mailman/listinfo/foaf-dev -- Dr. Alexandre Passant Digital Enterprise Research Institute National University of Ireland, Galway :me owl:sameAs <http://apassant.net/alex> .