Michele Pasin / Quotes

What counts as a class in RDF Schema

RDF classes can be used to represent almost any category of thing, such as Web pages, people, document types, databases or abstract concepts. Classes are…

Rdf Primer #types #class #categories #people #database #resources

Features (ontology)

Features are 'parasitic entities', that exist insofar their host exists. Typical examples of features are holes, bumps, boundaries, or spots of color…

Dolce-lite-plus #host #entities #features #typical-features #criteria

Faceted classification (definition)

In faceted classification systems, the attributes of the items are grouped into multiple orthogonal categories called “facets.” For example, a database of…

Facetlens : Exposing Trends And Relationships To Support Sensemaking Within Faceted Datasets #facets #fiction #book #items

Grabbing Text From Webpage

Grabbing Text From Webpages Because new research often incorporates pre-existing work, Zotero makes it easy for you to migrate quotable material from a…

Notes [zotero Documentation] #items #note #research

A complete account is more than a physical one

It should be clear that this argument simply repeats the kind of category mistake identified by Ryle. So it is true, as Swinburne says, that a physical…

The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) #materialism #dualism #description #categories

Orthogonality in faceted classifications

A true polyhierarchy really needs its individual hierarchies to be independent or orthogonal. Types in one should be independent of types in the other. That…

Classification, Facets, And Metaproperties #types #categories #levels #combination #implications