What is an Information Service?
Bob Ferris
FYI, I added yesterday an explanation of the term 'information service'
in the Info Service Ontology blog[1]. Please feel free to add comments,
suggestions and critics to establish this definition as a strong definition.
Cheers,
Bob
[1]
https://infoserviceonto.wordpress.com/2010/06/23/what-is-an-information-service/
Bob Ferris
> Hi,
>
> I notice from this definition that is looks similar to a
> bibo:Collection. Maybe this relationship should be investigated further.
Yes, as already discussed in the chats ;) , we have to figure out the
relations to existing ontologies.
These associations could be done in (more or less, so far as I know)
three ways:
1. :my_instance_of_something a ns:is_Info_Service_related_concept ,
is:InfoService .
2. ns:is_Info_Service_related_concept owl:equivalentClass is:InfoService
. # this is maybe the most strongest relation
3. ns:is_Info_Service_related_concept rdfs:subClassOf is:InfoService . #
this expresses a bit stronger that ns:is_Info_Service_related_concept is
a part of is:InfoService
Next to bibo:Collection[1], we figured out the following interesting
concepts re. is:InfoService today:
- void:Dataset[2]
- soic:Space[3]
I will contact the specific mailing lists somehow re. this issue.
In general, I think that the specific definitions of the 'candidate'
concepts are (often) somehow orthogonal to the definition of information
service. That's why it might be enough to define a 'best practice' re.
suggesting association case '1.' for typing instances with a
is:InfoService association. However, that depends all on the views of
the specific specification definition groups, if they think there could
also be a stronger interlinking between these ontology concepts, then
here we go ;)
Cheers,
Bob
[1]
http://bibotools.googlecode.com/svn/bibo-ontology/trunk/doc/classes/Collection___-1390642536.html
[2] http://vocab.deri.ie/void#Dataset
[3] http://sioc-project.org/ontology#term_Space