Capturing conflicting classifications + Annotations

[Tony Linde]

An area of work which I think needs to be captured and in which
semantic-ish-ness might help, is that of capturing and making available
conflicting information.

So, if we have a source of some sort, one person classifies it as a star and
another as a galaxy. How do we capture that in an ontology? Can the
classifications be rated?

Is there a more general topic here of annotating items in an ontology? Can
we overlay an ontology so that specialised interpretations or annotations
look like they are part of some full ontology? So, if a query is created
with a 'namespace' of AstroOntology+RoyWilliams, then querying on 'galaxies'
will include sources classified differently by RoyWilliams from everyone
else in astronomy.

Cheers,
Tony. 

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