[rdfweb-dev] orgmap

[jo walsh]

following up from the last mail i was thinking about modelling
connections, the simple this->connects->that and the reified version
this->pertains_to->(this->connects->that). so i am looking at one level
of indirection, this->forms_a->connection, connection->in_this_way->that   
connection->time->etc etc.

does that make sense? i'm planning to rewrite the basis of the space model
- http://space.frot.org/mudlondon.html etc when it *hopefully comes back 
up* later on - to model connections like this - that is what started this
line of thought in the first place, desire to annotate connections with
spatial and temporal properties.

i am looking at modelling other things using the same techniques partic
this orgmap http://mutemap.openmute.org/vocab/ which i am sketching out a
vocab for representing organisations and the connections between them. it
makes heavy use of FOAF stuff and some of the aktors portal ontology, 
http://www.aktors.org/ontology/portal though in large i am choosing to
repurpose what i need and put in a lot of owl:equivalentClass and
rdfs:subClassOf. 

it is part of a bigger project i am hoping to work on with mute magazine
but this is an attempt to get people interested in this approach, and run
a scutter/aggregation service maybe using some of mattb's pubsub stuff and
a RESTful api for getting and posting things.           

i would appreciate any advice wrt the state of the ontology,
http://mutemap.openmute.org/vocab/orgmap i am working on it, wondering if
the indirection of connections will be easy to infer from and query, also
how that connects to foaf and the foaf->knows->foaf statement. also
needing to state different kinds of relations between entities wondering    
how much i need to put in the schema.

zx
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