Since IAO 'example of usage' is an annotation property, there aren't really any logical consequences to be worried about. IAO provides a reduced artifact just for ontology metadata:
Docs: https://code.google.com/p/information-artifact-ontology/wiki/OntologyMetadat...
Ontology: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/iao/ontology-metadata.owl
This is a small ontology with zero imports.
Thanks, Jim
On Feb 5, 2015, at 12:46 PM, Paul J. Morris mole@morris.net wrote:
Yes.
iao brings in a number of imports with significant implications and a particular high level view of the world.
-Paul
On Thu, 5 Feb 2015 14:21:33 -0300 John Wieczorek tuco@berkeley.edu wrote:
Does anyone have similar concerns about iao:example?
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 2:09 PM, Paul J. Morris mole@morris.net wrote:
On Thu, 5 Feb 2015 11:17:58 -0500 Bob Morris morris.bob@gmail.com wrote:
But skos:note and its subproperties (including skos:example) can take literals or references [1]. To me, that weighs more than the baggage of minting two new terms.
Also, SKOS, unless care is taken to import the Owl-DL version, brings you into Owl-Full, with undesirable consequences for those who wish to do reasoning. In early versions of dwcFP, we did include SKOS terms, but removed them because of the consequences for reasoning.
SKOS has some nice terms, reuse is a nice idea, but it comes with significant knowledge engineering consequences.
-Paul
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