BIE descriptions vs prop descriptions

[VladimirAlexiev]

https://gist.github.com/VladimirAlexiev/618a9bddd6a949b75b37e983f0220417#prop-descriptions

Some BIE Descriptions seem to be richer than prop descriptions. Eg

cefact:Academic_Qualification.AbbreviatedName.Text a uncefact:BasicBIE ;
  rdfs:comment "The abbreviated name, expressed as text, of this academic qualification." ;
uncefact:abbreviatedName a rdf:Property ;
  rdfs:comment "An abbreviated name, expressed as text." ;

The BIE description could be used when the BIE is used in one term, and the term is applicable to only one class (as is the case for uncefact:abbreviatedName: applicable only to uncefact:Qualification) 1242 (or 1337?) of 1747 props satisfy this condition:

prefix uncefact: <https://service.unece.org/trade/uncefact/trade/uncefact/vocabulary/uncefact#> 
prefix schema: <http://schema.org/>
select * {
  ?prop uncefact:cefactElementMetadata ?bie
  filter not exists {?prop schema:domainIncludes ?dom1,?dom2 filter (?dom1 != ?dom2)}
  filter not exists {?prop uncefact:cefactElementMetadata ?bie2 filter (?bie != ?bie2)}
  ?prop rdfs:comment ?propDescr.
  ?bie rdfs:comment ?bieDescr.
} 

This requires further examination and unification of descriptions. Eg in the pair below:

• prop Accreditation: "An official recognition awarded to a person, organisation or thing, such as a building or product, to certify that a certain level of attainment has been achieved."
• BIE Certified_Accreditation.Details: "A certified recognition that provides evidence of a level of competency in a given area, such as certifying a level of skill in a trade."

[nissimsan]

@kshychko , at one point we listed all the applicable properties - it was pretty ugly. We're not doing this anymore, but what is actually the rule we apply now? Would you mind commenting, pls?

[onthebreeze]

It's an underlying incompatibility between the UN CCTS method which duplicates classes by copying and restricting - vs RSFS which inherits and extends

Honestly I don't know a solution to this other than to manually clean up and consequently permanently fork from the source core component library

[VladimirAlexiev]

@onthebreeze I also don't see any better way, so this would be a lot of work.

Doing all this work just to obtain a bit richer descriptions is low-priority.

However, resolving semantic differences between definitions should be higher priority. Eg these two seem to give somewhat different meaning to Accreditation?

• prop: "An official recognition awarded to a person, organisation or thing, such as a building or product, to certify that a certain level of attainment has been achieved."
• BIE "A certified recognition that provides evidence of a level of competency in a given area, such as certifying a level of skill in a trade."