Earlier today I gave my presentation of my paper in Ontologies. My presentation is entitled, “A Tale of Two Properties.” It is about using thesaural standards and practice to disambiguate the scope notes and examples of two CIDOC CRM properties (relationships).
It went pretty well.
After class, and the usual after-class discussion, I walked myself downtown to the Blind Pig for a reward. I enjoyed my 1st Guinness outdoors while I caught up with Bloglines and a lot of posts from CiL. I am now enjoying my 2nd pint sitting just inside the doors, but the doors are wide open. Which in the case of the Pig means basically the whole front “wall” is wide open.
I kind of wish I was at CiL as so many of my “diner friends” (see comment 3 & 4) are there, but I have a place I need to be right now. And that is school.
I now have a week to incorporate the additional material that I had in my presentation into my paper as my second paper. Shouldn’t be too difficult, except 1) I have another presentation to prepare for next Wednesday (and I have way too much stuff to choose from), and 2) Allen is talking about posting my paper to the CIDOC CRM discussion list.
I am happy with my efforts at disambiguating the P88 and P89 properties within CIDOC CRM for “geographical places,” but the entity (class) E53 Place is far broader than that, and FRBRoo (F12 Place) just makes it worse. I did take a 1st stab at giving examples for P88 and P89 in a FRBRoo world, but I’m unsure how far my analysis can be stretched. But the E53/F12 Place is already seriously over-stretched in the 1st place! Insanely overstretched! It definitely needs some subclasses.
My presentation for next week is for RO and is on “relationships.” Mostly those from the “bibliographic universe,” but I’ve read much wider than that. For instance, Green on relationships within the context of cognitive semantics.
After I give my presentation I have one more week to finish writing my book review (Bean & Green) and finish my annotated bibliography on my readings on relationships.
After class this evening I mentioned to Allen that I wish we had time to look at FRAD in Ontologies. He suggested that I suggest it for a discussion in Metadata Roundtable. Excellent idea, except I said I’d feel bad suggesting it but saying someone else needs to lead the discussion. He suggested a splitting up of the workload in a sort of team approach and even volunteered himself. Hmmm? Like I need more work! I still have to do my Terminology Services presentation, which may well end up being for this group.
But perhaps Allen, Kathryn, and I? Like Kathryn needs more work, too. But comments aren’t due until 15 July; maybe we have time to end the semester, me to “do” Terminology Services,” and for us to do this in MDRT, too. Hmmm? I’m crazy enough to try.
