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
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