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A BFO and CCO conformant ontology of criminal acts
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IRI Structure #1

Closed johnbeve closed 1 year ago

johnbeve commented 1 year ago

The IRIs for this file seem to end in randomized strings, e.g "R1PY9E13YhPhV7QvMke50C". Was there a reason you those this strategy over, say, the more standardized namespace+incrementing 7 digit, strategy?

avsculley commented 1 year ago

@johnbeve Thanks for taking a look!

No there is no reason for that. The IRIs of entities original to this ontology (e.g., 'crime') are just placeholders. My first aim was to get the hierarchy right. Then I was planning to ask you about best practices with minting new IRIs.

I noticed also that LMSS (the ontology from which I get the NIBRS terms) follows the (seemingly) random strings strategy for IRIs, but I don't know why.

avsculley commented 1 year ago

@johnbeve Also the IRI you quoted was an LMSS original IRI. As far as I know, that's a good reason to keep it like that. Correct me if I am wrong.

There are also IRIs that are siblings of entity. These are also LMSS, but are due to uses of rdfs:seeAlso that I'll have to consider what to do with. For example, 'assisted suicide' is related to both 'last will & testament' and 'living will' through rdfs:seeAlso. I don't think these should be included in a crime ontology, but both their IRIs are present until I officially decide what to do with them.