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Retire SSNX alignment module? #154

Closed dr-shorthair closed 5 months ago

dr-shorthair commented 6 months ago

The 2017 version of the SSN Ontology spec has a (non-normative) of the alignment with the 2011 Ontology ('SSNX') that was the result of the previous W3C Incubator group - see https://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-ssn/#SSNX_Alignment . This was considered important due to the highly-cited status of a paper describing the 2011 work https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1570826812000571?via%3Dihub#section-cited-by .

We have preserved all sosa: and ssn: terms from the 2017 version, so the alignment file is still OK. However, we have now deprecated use of the ssn: terms, and the link back to the 2011 ontology is of declining significance.

Should we remove or reduce the scale of this section, maybe leaving behind a mention of the tabulated alignment in the 2017 edition of this spec and a link to the alignment file?

dr-shorthair commented 5 months ago

in #155 I've left behind a link to the previous edition so the SSNX alignment can still be tracked down by people who want it. See https://raw.githack.com/w3c/sdw-sosa-ssn/Retire-SSNX-alignment/ssn/index.html#SSNX_Alignment