Semantics and Generalisation

[thechriswalker]

I have been watching the progress of #169, as in the TabTab pull request #170 I used the ogit/Set entity. Now it has been removed.

I am struggling to understand the usage of the word semantic is relation to the graph entities/verbs/attributes. I thought it meant to be as specific as needed and as general as possible. Therefore an arbitrary collection of entities could be grouped with an ogit/Set node quite happily. It seems I was wrong, which may mean a lot of the pull request will need reworking.

Does the removal of ogit/Set mean that we should instead be requesting creation of entities like ogit/NTO/SetOfThingA or ogit/NTO/ThingA/Set? What is the preferred definition for group entities?

Thanks for the clarification, I am requesting a lot of changes, and want to understand what will work best in OGIT.

[plarem]

We have remove ogit/Set because it has no semantical meaning. ogit/Set could contain any types and combination of entities. But these is not the sense of the ontology.
e.g. a group of MARSNodes is a MARSModel (not a ogit/Set connected to MARSNodes)
or a group of Paragraphs is a Statute (not in OGIT yet :-) ) and so on.

Don't use ogit/NTO/ThingA/Set. Use ogit/NTO/SemanticNameOfAnGroup.
I hope it helps you.
And sorry for the confusion of ogit/Set.

[thechriswalker]

OK, that's cool, your response is super helpful! I will probably need to change my pull request (but that's a good thing).

[conofre]

Hi Chris,
I am reviewing the pull request and was also commenting the same thing because of entity Collection, I will provide my feedback shortly at the pull request with some suggested changes/questions

[thechriswalker]

@conofre it might be easier for you to review the "files changed" in a pull request, rather than the commits one by one. Later commits change changes in earlier commits. Github allows you to view the combined diff in one go. I only say this, because ogit/Collection is not in the final code of the pull request, but you mention it here. A later commit removes all references to ogit/Collection changing it to ogit/Set. This will be changed soon by another commit where I use more semantically correct entities for grouping objects.