From: Markus <ma...@ai...> - 2006-06-14 09:46:59
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On Sunday 11 June 2006 10:53, Tony Bowden wrote: > On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 11:54:47PM -0400, glenn mcdonald wrote: > > To do this in SMW, however, you would need to create the Council Term > > objects as pages of their own: one for every combination of seat and > > year. This may or not be acceptable overhead. Similarly, with the > > grants, there would need to be a bunch of Grant objects/pages, each of > > which has an Amount and a Date and a Recipient. So the difficulty is > > not in the ontology or the triples, it's in the semantically > > artificial MW granularity of objects as pages. > > This is pretty much what I've been doing on our internal company wiki, > where it's easy enough to just tell people they need to create all these > pages. > > I was hoping, however, that for something like the Nigov wiki, where > much of the content is imported minutes of council meetings, and it's a > considerable overhead to create these intermediate pages (terms aren't > that bad; grant pages are probably too much though) that someone could > come up with a nice way to 'fake' this, perhaps with blank nodes or > the like. Yes, I could imagine this for SMW. We already fake some ternary relations f= or=20 the special case of units of measurement and it seems to be usable. But a=20 general solution is of course much harder. I would not use blank nodes as auxilliary nodes, since a blank node has a t= rue=20 existential semantics that is poorly understood by many people. I would use= =20 an auxilliary node with a generated unique name. =2D- Markus > > Thanks, > > Tony > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Semediawiki-user mailing list > Sem...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-user =2D-=20 Markus Kr=F6tzsch Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, D-76128 Karlsruhe ma...@ai... phone +49 (0)721 608 7362 www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/ fax +49 (0)721 693 717 |