Re: Proposals (was Re: Architecture of SOSA/SSN integration) : issue-87 only

+1 for Kerry's arguments.

And it appears very strange to me to state that an observable property is a
sub property of a property.

I just changed to sosa:Property instead of sosa:ObservableProperty in the
proposal I am currently working on.
 + add relations and classes that are missing

best,
Maximle

Le dim. 5 févr. 2017 à 13:44, Kerry Taylor <kerry.taylor@anu.edu.au> a
écrit :

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> PhilA has said
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> >>> Looking at the two definitions, there are differences but they look
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>     >>> very minor to my eyes with sosa:ObservableProperty looking slightly
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>     >>> more general, so, again, I'd delete ssn:Property.
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> This is issue-87. As you can see by my analysis last November in the
> tracker https://www.w3.org/2015/spatial/track/issues/87 ,
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> (1). A sosa: Observable Property is NOT an O&M property. The O&M standard
> has no such term.
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> (2) The ssn:Property  has the same intended meaning as an  an O&M Property (and, yes it is an O&M “Property”) and this is explicit by the annotation  within ssn “<dc:source> skos:exactMatch 'property' [O&M]  http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/om </dc:source>”
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> (3) What is shown in the mapping table is  not the complete annotation for
>  ssn:Property – just an extract. However that very paragraph deserves
> improvement.
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> (4) ssn:Property is used in other places throughout ssn that have nothing
> to do with the narrow context associated with Observation  as it is used in
> SOSA.
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> In particular, nothing to do with a
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> (5) ssn:Property cannot be deleted --- many, many things will break.  Nor
> can it be replaced by sosa:ObservableProperty (see 4).  Maybe it is
> possible to say sosa:Property rdfs:SubclassOf  ssn:Property but this has
> its problems too (ssn instances would not be sosa instances). A more
> sophisticated  workaround is required if we head that direction.
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> (6) ssn users know it as “Property” . So do O&M users. Why change, who are
> we serving?
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> (6) OTOH a simple name change  in sosa to “Property” and some
> clarification on the rdfs:comments in both places would work – and then ssn
> and sosa can use the very same term. This is the essence of my proposal on
> the wiki as a pattern to solve all these many problems.
> https://www.w3.org/2015/spatial/wiki/Proposals_for_rewriting_SSN#Compromise_Proposal_6_made_by_Kerry_January_2017
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> In this case the rdfs:comment suggested by Armin looks very close  but I
> prefer abbreviated as follows (due to (4) )  “An observable quality of a
> real world phenomena (thing, person, event, etc.) “ or here is another idea
>  that I propose “An observable quality of a real world phenomena (object,
>  person, or event), typically a FeatureOfInterest” . That works well  in
> the context for my proposal that also shows how to use it in the simple
> core.
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> -Kerry
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> Dr Kerry Taylor
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> Associate Professor (Data Science)
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> Research School of Computer Science
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> ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science
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> Canberra ACT 2601 Australia
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