[SMI-ontos] The Ordered List Ontology and the SWAN Collections Ontology

[Bob F. <za...@sm...>]

Hi,

I recently had an email exchange with Paolo Ciccarese [1], who is the 
maintainer of the SWAN Collections Ontology [2]. Thereby, we also 
discussed the alignment of this ontology with OLO. AFAIK, this issue was 
already discussed a bit, when I announced the first drafts of OLO (see 
[3,4,5]).
Paolo is quite interested in a mixing of the two ontologies. Here are 
shortly the main difference between them:

- OLO has olo:index as primary access method for slots
- OLO has more restrictions on its properties then the equal ones in the 
SWAN Collections Ontology
- the SWAN Collections Ontology has properties for relating transitive 
slots in a sequence (we initially excluded this feature)
- the SWAN Collections Ontology has properties for first/last slot in a 
sequence (this issue is on the OLO TODO list [6], too, since it was 
requested)

What do you think about a mixing of these two ontologies?


Cheers,


Bob


[1] http://www.paolociccarese.info/
[2] http://swan.mindinformatics.org/spec/1.2/collections.html
[3] 
http://groups.google.com/group/music-ontology-specification-group/browse_frm/thread/dfcb68d7336394fa?tvc=1&q=Ordered+List+Ontology 
especially 
http://groups.google.com/group/music-ontology-specification-group/msg/f7e893c9090a00e2
[4] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/semantic-web/2010Jun/0173.html
[5] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/semantic-web/2010Jun/0174.html
[6] 
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3204815&group_id=333907&atid=1399770