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Should we use P3 has note
or rdfs:comment
?
#32
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Or maybe should one be used over the other in specific situations? |
what is the use case? |
We have no use cases for this particular "note" field. I was just wondering is there is any semantic differences between the two of them. |
With the discussions we had during our meeting on the 20th of January, we've come to the conclusion that
Therefore, I think we should only use |
+1 for P3_has_note |
If everyone agrees, I think we can close this issue. |
+1 |
Ok, so I just want to clarify something here, at the risk of being pedantic. Traditionally in CIDOC CRM practice as taught and indeed demonstrated in the model by its position in the numbering, p3_has_note was conceived in order to be able to cover additional textual data of significant complexity and non structured nature that it could not be modelled and yet was of import. p3_has_note functioned within the ontology much like the dreaded column in the excel or db table 'comment' or 'note'. In discussions with the Arches Resource Modelling Working Group, however, and LinkedArt, the observation arose that 'notes' are often quite valuable information and information that one day could be semantized, probably by some forms of machine learning/nlp etc. Therefore, understanding these comments within their context is important. At that point, p3_has_comment does not cut it because all it does is allow you to dump a text string beside a node. So consider this scenario. We have the 'Battle of Vimy Ridge' as name of an event in some list of Canadian events. This list also has some commentary fields. One says, "Canadians, and only Canadians, call it the Battle of Vimy Ridge . . . In everyone else's historical lexicons, it was a limited tactical victory in the First World War's horrendous Battle of Arras, which the British and their allies lost. "It had a negligible effect on the war's outcome. The Canadians had equal casualties and more strategic successes in other battles, such as Amiens and Passchendaele. If French or British rather than Canadian troops had driven the German enemy off Vimy Ridge, history probably would have forgotten about it." the other says, "Historians attribute the success of the Canadian Corps to technical and tactical innovation, meticulous planning, powerful artillery support and extensive training, as well as the inability of the 6th Army to properly apply the new German defensive doctrine. The battle was the first occasion when the four divisions of the Canadian Expeditionary Force fought together and it was made a symbol of Canadian national achievement and sacrifice." If we follow the p3_has_note method then we would get http://battleofvimyridge.ca a E5_Event; Now we have definitely related those texts to the model, but should we be happy? I would argue, no. These texts provide valuable insight from two different points of view of the relative importance of this one thing that we recognize together as some sort of happening 'Vimy Ridge'. Therefore, I would argue for this case, but also for the case where a curator would write a comment about an object, or a conservator write out an observation etc. that we should mode this data as a linguistic object as per issue 20 I'm not sure if I could see a use case for using p3 has note by itself. Perhaps as a comment on the content of the node? |
Oh and the Vimy Ridge references were and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Vimy_Ridge just for completeness |
Notes on verbal meeting 2020-02-17: P3 has note is about particular information that could not be mapped correctly so will mostly use curatorial note w/ linguistic object. P3 has note will not be used much. Everyone is in accord. |
I agree to prefer P3 over rdfs:comment. However there are 2 more to consider:
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@VladimirAlexiev Thanks for +1 about P3 :)
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P3 has note
or rdfs:comment
?P3 has note
or rdfs:comment
?
Decisions to document in the TM:
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The aforementioned decisions have all been documented in the TM (Annotations and Comments). However, we are still missing the node to manage the Curatorial Note topic. |
CHIN has decided to open a new Issue (#63) to discuss the Curatorial Note Topic. This is why I close this issue. |
Both
P3 has note
andrdfs:comment
can be used to add a note to an instance.The question is simple: which one would be best to use?
P3 has note
would mean stay in CIDOC CRM, butrdfs:comment
is more widely used.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: