An Ontology Design Pattern for Referential Qualities

Ortmann, Jens; Daniel, Desiree

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-25073-6_34

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“…Spatial receptive field and temporal receptive window inhere in the observer, and are therefore physical qualities. Spatial receptive field and temporal receptive window are also examples of referential qualities, i.e., "qualities of an entity taken with reference to another entities" [73]. Both SRF and TRW are qualities of the observer taken with reference to the stimulus.…”

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Spatial and temporal resolution of geographic information: an observation-based theory

Degbelo

Kuhn

2018

Open geospatial data, softw. stand.

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After a review of previous work on resolution in geographic information science (GIScience), this article presents a theory of spatial and temporal resolution of sensor observations. Resolution of single observations is computed based on the characteristics of the receptors involved in the observation process, and resolution of observation collections is assessed based on the portion of the study area (or study period) that has been observed by the observations in the collection. The theory is formalized using Haskell. The concepts suggested for the description of the resolution of observation and observation collections are turned into ontology design patterns, which can be used for the annotation of current observations with their spatial and temporal resolution.

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Section: Alignment To Dolce: Resolution Of An Observationmentioning

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Spatial and temporal resolution of geographic information: an observation-based theory

Degbelo

Kuhn

2018

Open geospatial data, softw. stand.

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“…Probst provides an ontological theory for unary qualities and an implementation in the Web Ontology Language (OWL) 4 . To overcome the agent-independence of Probst's approach, Ortmann and Daniel [27] suggest an ontology design pattern for referential qualities that can be used to model qualities that depend on their host and on an additional referent entity. The ontology design pattern for referential qualities uses the same version of DOLCE as Probst's work [32,33].…”

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“…DOLCE characterizes qualities "as the basic entities we can perceive or measure" [26, p. 16]. Ortmann and Daniel [27] refine the view of affordances as qualities by making the observing agent as a referent explicit. In their view an affordance is a referential quality, which is specifically dependent on its host and on the observer.…”

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An egocentric semantic reference system for affordances

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This article suggests a theory of egocentric semantic reference systems for human observations of affordances that can be used to semantically account for subjective human observations on the web. Based on the perceptual theory of affordances, which suggests that humans perceive the potential actions the environment affords, an egocentric semantic reference frame is established, which is anchored in the observer's specific capabilities for perception and action. The theory is completed with transformations that allow to project values of observed affordances from one user's ordinal reference frame into another user's ordinal reference frame. The potency of the theory to capture the semantics of human observations is demonstrated through the implementation of a full fledged egocentric semantic reference system for the prototypical affordance of hikability that a mountain path affords to a hiker. The prototype uses real user-ratings from a community driven web portal.

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“…The idea of geo‐ontology design patterns is new and, therefore, only a few patterns have been proposed so far, e.g. Ortmann and Daniel (2011) implemented patterns for referential qualities, while Janowicz and Compton (2010) have developed the Stimulus‐Sensor‐Observation pattern (SSO) 4…”

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Observation‐Driven Geo‐Ontology Engineering

Janowicz

2012

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Big Data, Linked Data, Smart Dust, Digital Earth, and e-Science are just some of the names for research trends that surfaced over the last years. While all of them address different visions and needs, they share a common theme: How do we manage massive amounts of heterogeneous data, derive knowledge out of them instead of drowning in information, and how do we make our findings reproducible and reusable by others? In a network of knowledge, topics span across scientific disciplines and the idea of domain ontologies as common agreements seems like an illusion. In this work, we argue that these trends require a radical paradigm shift in ontology engineering away from a small number of authoritative, global ontologies developed top-down, to a high number of local ontologies that are driven by application needs and developed bottom-up out of observation data. Similarly as the early Web was replaced by a social Web in which volunteers produce data instead of purely consuming it, the next generation of knowledge infrastructures has to enable users to become knowledge engineers themselves. Surprisingly, existing ontology engineering frameworks are not well suited for this new perspective. Hence, we propose an observation-driven ontology engineering framework, show how its layers can be realized using specific methodologies, and relate the framework to existing work on geo-ontologies.

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An Ontology Design Pattern for Referential Qualities

Cited by 11 publications

References 21 publications

Spatial and temporal resolution of geographic information: an observation-based theory

Spatial and temporal resolution of geographic information: an observation-based theory

An egocentric semantic reference system for affordances

Observation‐Driven Geo‐Ontology Engineering

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