Martin and Duane, (01)
I agree with Duane that this "appears to be a solid mid level ontology."
and "Licensing it as CC is also good for the community." (02)
When I first saw Martin's note, it looked like advertising, but since
the ontology is freely available, that makes it an open resource that
was produced by a commercial organization. (03)
I would also congratulate Martin & Co. for presenting an rdfs/owl
ontology in a linear form that is very readable: (04)
http://www.heppnetz.de/ontologies/goodrelations/v1 (05)
But what makes it so readable are all the English sentences marked
"rdfs:comment". Those are clear, well-written sentences, which with
minor modifications could be stated in a controlled English. (06)
For some examples of controlled English and its relationship to
ordinary English and to Common Logic, see (07)
http://www.jfsowa.com/talks/cl_sowa.pdf (08)
Specifying a type hierarchy in rdfs and owl is OK, but controlled
English can also be used to specify the information in the comments
in a form that is readable by both humans and machines. For further
references, see Slide 28 of the cl_sowa.pdf talk. (09)
John Sowa (010)
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