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Repository of the Spatial Data on the Web Working Group for the SOSA/SSN vocabulary
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Disentangling the "Ontology" vs "Graph" language in the narrative #186

Closed dr-shorthair closed 4 months ago

dr-shorthair commented 5 months ago

I've tried to clarify the use of

Also see /ssn/integrated/sosa-modularized.ttl in this branch where I took a look at how finer grained modularization might work to provide separate conformance-classes for Actuations, Observations and Samplings - these sections would be moved into separate files/graphs.

Preview at https://raw.githack.com/w3c/sdw-sosa-ssn/183-clarify-ssn-ontology/ssn/index.html#Modularization https://raw.githack.com/w3c/sdw-sosa-ssn/183-clarify-ssn-ontology/ssn/index.html#RDFdistribution https://raw.githack.com/w3c/sdw-sosa-ssn/183-clarify-ssn-ontology/ssn/index.html#Axioms

and also fixed the dcterms:title in the various modules.

ldesousa commented 5 months ago

Quick reaction: "ontology" for whole set and "module" for the four individual files would be more canonical, imho (the terminology in AIM and GloSIS). The whole set forms itself a graph, that term conveys a broader meaning in my understanding.