Ontology tagging of persons instead of categories

Sat Sep 12, 2009 7:23 pm

I've always had problems with the categories in my address book. The suggested categories "work", "friends" etc. don't mean a lot and when you think about how you'd describe the people you know, categories don't make much sense.

What I propose is using the triples system used by NEPOMUK also when it comes to describing a person.

E.g.
* John Doe: hang out with; was in my class in high school; is good at hardware; tells mean jokes; uses Linux; studies IT; brother of Jane Doe; helped write <presentation_on_disk>; I would trust my life; I would trust with money; I would trust my kids to; went to <event> with; organised <event> with
* Joe Public: was on my faculty; is annoying; married to Jane Doe; has 2 kids with Jane Doe; drinks a lot; is not trustworthy at all; owes me money (data from KMyMoney/Scroogle

hehe)
* Jane Doe: used to hang out with; was on my high school; sister of John Doe; married to Joe Public; has 2 kids with Joe Public;

I know all of these could be done as categories and/or tags, but I feel that in a lot of cases it would be better if it's a triple. E.g. it would IMHO be more logical to search for people you e.g. hang out with and used to hang out with or differentiate between people or you used to go to school with, but are differently related to you.

If persons were described (also) using triplets, IMHO it would be possible to e.g. easier tag and search for persons who you were to school with and differentiate between those you were going out with, used to date, who were in your class or not, are connected between themselves or not and other small differences that matter IRL. All that while still managing to maintain some common ground (e.g. they were all your schoolmates).

P.S. In a way, if this is not possible in the current NEPOMUK's PIMO ontology, I suggest an improvement of it. I've skimmed through the PIMO (and some other) ontology, but it seems to me like it could work within current NEPOMUK specs.
P.P.S. I don't know if this brainstorm makes a lot of sense. I'm sorry, my minds a bit full today :\

It's time to prod some serious buttock!

hook Registered Member Posts 205 Karma 0 OS	Ontology tagging of persons instead of categories Sat Sep 12, 2009 7:23 pm I've always had problems with the categories in my address book. The suggested categories "work", "friends" etc. don't mean a lot and when you think about how you'd describe the people you know, categories don't make much sense. What I propose is using the triples system used by NEPOMUK also when it comes to describing a person. E.g. * John Doe: hang out with; was in my class in high school; is good at hardware; tells mean jokes; uses Linux; studies IT; brother of Jane Doe; helped write <presentation_on_disk>; I would trust my life; I would trust with money; I would trust my kids to; went to <event> with; organised <event> with * Joe Public: was on my faculty; is annoying; married to Jane Doe; has 2 kids with Jane Doe; drinks a lot; is not trustworthy at all; owes me money (data from KMyMoney/Scroogle hehe) * Jane Doe: used to hang out with; was on my high school; sister of John Doe; married to Joe Public; has 2 kids with Joe Public; I know all of these could be done as categories and/or tags, but I feel that in a lot of cases it would be better if it's a triple. E.g. it would IMHO be more logical to search for people you e.g. hang out with and used to hang out with or differentiate between people or you used to go to school with, but are differently related to you. If persons were described (also) using triplets, IMHO it would be possible to e.g. easier tag and search for persons who you were to school with and differentiate between those you were going out with, used to date, who were in your class or not, are connected between themselves or not and other small differences that matter IRL. All that while still managing to maintain some common ground (e.g. they were all your schoolmates). P.S. In a way, if this is not possible in the current NEPOMUK's PIMO ontology, I suggest an improvement of it. I've skimmed through the PIMO (and some other) ontology, but it seems to me like it could work within current NEPOMUK specs. P.P.S. I don't know if this brainstorm makes a lot of sense. I'm sorry, my minds a bit full today :\ It's time to prod some serious buttock!
Angel Blue01 Registered Member Posts 220 Karma 0 OS	Ontology tagging of persons instead of categories Wed Sep 23, 2009 6:16 pm This is the kind of thing I have in mind when I hear the term "semantic desktop" Proudly dual-booting openSUSE 11.1 with KDE 4.3 and Windows Vista on a Toshiba A205-S4577 since July 2007.
Madman Registered Member Posts 593 Karma 1 OS	Ontology tagging of persons instead of categories Fri Sep 25, 2009 11:15 pm I think this is part of the, "end vision" anyway... Madman, proud to be a member of KDE forums since 2008-Oct.