this comes from the ontolingua library.a periodical-publication is published regularly, such as onceevery week. strictly speaking, the noun 'periodical' is usedby librarians to refer to things published at intervals of greaterthan a day. we use the phase periodical-publication to includenewspapers and other daily publications, since they share manybibliographic features.the periodicity indicates how often the publication comes out. note that this isa duration, rather than a time interval. a time interval indicates a specific time intervalon the time continuum, so we need to model periodicity as a time quantity
a person which has an affiliation with some organization.for instance employees are affiliated to the organization they work for,students to the institution where they are studying, etc..a person can have multiple affiliations, which means that there is noconstraint relating the values of slot has-affiliation-to-unit to the valuesof slot has-affiliation
a publication which contains items which cane be themselves referenced through apublication reference. composite publications include newspapers, magazines and journals.a book which is a collection of articles is a composite publication, a monograph is not
a system which is accessible through the we
an event in which the main agent transfers something (the thing-acted-on, tangible or intangible)to one or more recipient agents.note that we do not say anything about whether the original agent still retainthe thing-acted-on. in some cases this is clearly true ('i pass my wisdom on to my daughter'),in other cases it is not (i give you my wallet).
sme are important, so we define a class to represent them explicitly.in some case we might not know or we do not want to bother specifyingexcatly whether something is a small-organization or a medium-organization.hence, we can just say 'x is a sme' without going into further detail.
about 600 employees - i guess we consider it a medium-sized organizatio
a meeting type of event. note that both attendee and organizer havemultiple cardinality
people and in general even organizations and organization unitsmay have research interests. this relation shoudl be used tospecify them
this notion comes from cyc. it is useful to group together allinformation bearing entities, including video, audio and documents.an information bearing object may have an author (a generic agent)and may be owned by a legal agent. it is a tangible object
an organization may have a number of units. units may themselves have sub-unit
this is a generic notion, an agent can be an organization, a personan animal, a software agent, etc
hpkb says that genders are intangible..uhm..
by technology we mean engineered applications of science.i guess we are probably confining ourselves to tangible thingsbut as i am not sure i will use thing as the direct superclass -e.g., an algorithm is an intangible thing, but it could be seen asa technology, if we give a broad interpretation of the term
merrian-webster says: a small publication (such as a leaflet or newspaper)containing news of interest chiefly to a special group
we have decided that a publication reference is an intangible, abstract informatio
it is sufficient that somebody in unit ?u works in project ?
this is an event in which the main agent (plus maybe others)goes from some place to another
a generalized transfer in which information is passed from main agent to one or morerecipient agents. examples include giving a tutorial.
some agents have legal status: definitely organizations and people,anybody else?
a publication is something which has one or more publication references.a publication can be both an article in a journal or a journal itself.the distinction between publication and publication-reference makes it possibleto distinguish between multiple occurrences of the same publication, for instance indifferent media
a publication produced in electronic for
modified to allow addresses to be given as strings, with no structur
merrian-webster has a good set of definitions for a method.they say it is 'a systematic procedure,technique, or mode of inquiry employed by or proper to a particulardiscipline or art; a systematic plan followed in presentingmaterial for instruction; a way, technique, orprocess of or for doing something; a body of skills or techniques'.this is very much also what we mean by method.
this is a minimalist definition of class event. we start with the very basicand we will then add slots as we specialise this definition for specific classes of events.the fillers of slots has-other-agents-involved and has-main-agent should notintersect
this used to be called periodical publication. however, many periodicalsdo not appear at fixed intervals, which is why librarians refer to them as serials.so, we now use the concept of serial publication and the has-periodicity slot has beenremoved
a generic class to specify generic areas for research or business initiatives.for instance, the area in which a project is situated