[Esip-schema-dot-org] Fwd: Webinar: Schema.org & executable research documents

Wed Sep 23 18:36:29 EDT 2020

Hi folks,

I guiltily admit to not having worked further on the "variableMeasured"
recommendations since our last meeting.  I know Steve Richard has done some
further edits but I haven't looked these over closely yet.

There has been discussion amongst us as to how much we can reuse-but-abuse
existing schema.org terms that would be relevant were they not so narrowly
"defined" (i.e. over-constraining of recommended Types to use with
properties; recommended properties to use with Types).  Some folks are
saying we should simply reference external vocabularies where useful (e.g.
SOSA, or describe columns of a dataset that are not strictly
"variableMeasured" using more neutral schema.org terms, like
"Observation).

Pier recently discussed such potential "flexibility" in use of schema.org
term with Dan Brickley, and if I understood Pier's summarization correctly,
Dan said we can flexibly use schema.org terms even IF they seem to not be
appropriate for use with some specific Types or Properties.  So, that
approach is one that I hope to examine more fully.  A simple concrete
example is how Pier has suggested use of the Property "about" to describe
what a "variableMeasured" is "about"-- which seems sensible!  Perhaps
"about" could have a Property Value or  Text Type of some "feature of
interest"-- EXCEPT "about" is supposed to be used with "Creative Work",
"Event" or "Communicate Action".  But it seems we can and should defy these
recommendations-- and if we do so for 'about" we have opened the gates to
other potential schema.org terms of interest-- some of which we've already
referenced in our draft text (so:Observation, so:measuredProperty, and
so:QualitativeValue come to mind). One potential advantage of re-using
schema.org terms in this way is that we actually succeed through
adoption/use in extending the utility of the vocabulary without introducing
added complexity of external ontologies with their potential entailments.

BTW, I have examined the RDF and OWL versions of schema.org (from the
Developer site), but apparently these are both considered
"non-authoritative" and don't yet include 'so:variableMeasured' for that
matter.  Does anyone know if there are more recent, canonical
serializations of schema.org into something better than the webpage
documentation?

Tomorrow I would like to attend the webinar described below, that seems
relevant to our group- so apologies in advance for not being on the entire
call.

cheers,
Mark
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