Re: [regrep-semantic] PR5: Individual as a new canonical objectType

["David RR Webber" <david@drrw.info>]

Totally!

What madness is this?!?

Instance it is then - or maybe Individual Instance - but
not Individual!!.

DW.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Farrukh Najmi" <Farrukh.Najmi@Sun.COM>
To: <regrep-semantic@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 7:22 AM
Subject: Re: [regrep-semantic] PR5: Individual as a new canonical objectType


> David RR Webber wrote:
>
> >I would like to see more granularity here - are you just thinking
> >about Name, Role, ID - or is there more to this?
> >
> >
> Are you confusing this with an individual human?
>
> Individual is meant to represnet an instance of a Class. I believe teh
name
> is very misleading. I would prefer to call it Instance instead of
> Individual.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> +1 on all of Evans new PRs.
>
> >If more - then right now we have basic individual information
> >(see http://registry.oasis-open.org ), or we potentially have
> >way more information - aka the OASIS CIQ model.
> >
> >Just trying to find out how long the piece of string is here...
> >
> >Thanks, DW.
> >
> >----- Original Message ----- 
> >From: <ewallace@cme.nist.gov>
> >To: <regrep-semantic@lists.oasis-open.org>
> >Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 5:47 PM
> >Subject: [regrep-semantic] PR5: Individual as a new canonical objectType
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>PR5. Need objectType to represent a Individual
> >>
> >>    We need a new canonical objectType within the canonical
> >>    ObjectTypeScheme to represent objects of type Individual (instance).
> >>
> >>    Motivation: Must be able to identify an Individual (which is a
> >>    member of an Ontology Class) within RIM in a standard interoperable
> >>    manner.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>
> -- 
> Regards,
> Farrukh
>
>
>