search

w3c-lbd-cg / bot

Building Topology Ontology
https://w3id.org/bot
53 stars 15 forks source link

Alignment revision #46

Closed GeorgFerdinandSchneider closed 4 years ago

GeorgFerdinandSchneider commented 5 years ago

Dear all!

I will not be able to stay long at the git issue sprint.

Regarding merging the alignments in the GH repo please consider the ones in the "AlignmentRevision" ones as the latest. I compared and checked differences to the "revisingAlignments" branch, which is deprecated.

In general, the alignments need to be revised also by other experts and members of the group. In particular see the comments by @MadsHolten and @mpoveda in the pull request https://github.com/w3c-lbd-cg/bot/pull/22.

The problems identified are

subclasses of saref4bldg:contains rather than the other way around since these are more specific?

deKlerk commented 5 years ago

Note from LDAC: There is no reason to not accept this pull request. It is an improvement over what was there originally.

Yet, these alignments are not the only option. At the moment, alignments are done using subsumption relations, while there is no real reason to say that e.g. bot:space is more general than brick:space. Equivalency relations are not that much better, because it would lead to unwanted inheritance of properties. Not using any alignments might be a third, better option.