Capturing conflicting classifications + Annotations

[Bernard Vatant]

Tony

See my previous answer to Roy, where there might be clues about your first question at
least. As long as you make fact and interpretation distinct objects, there is no problem
in qualifying the interpretation by any appropriate attribute (author, date, asserted
quality). You can easily formally define approval, refutation, whatever, like :

"X is an interpretation of E by Roy"
"Tony says that X is *** (whatever you want to qualify it)"

Bernard

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : owner-semantics at eso.org [mailto:owner-semantics at eso.org]De la part
> de Tony Linde
> Envoye : jeudi 2 juin 2005 23:10
> A : semantics at ivoa.net
> Objet : Capturing conflicting classifications + Annotations
>
>
> 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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