W6 Vocabulary

an ontology to allow resource descriptions and reasoning based on the 6 questions : who, why, what, when, where, how

Status: very early experiments

see also : XOW (XHTML Outlines for W6) (older material)

Latest update: 2004-02-12

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OWL ontology: w6.owl

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In brief : a small and intuitive set of terms for recording key facets of a resource : who, what, why, when, where, how.

Motivation : initial blog post : http://dannyayers.com/archives/002135.html

Description

in lieu of a proper write-up...

• Expressed in OWL to provide constraints
• Work well in locally-closed world with additional rules (Prolog?) - bind a stray Person to an empty who ????
• Resource type for each property, e.g. w6:who -> w6:Agent
• W6 resource types (optionally) mapped to well-known types : w6:Agent = foaf:Agent
• Null type for each e.g. w6:who -> w6:NoOne????
• Usable alongside IBIS vocab - central resource rdf:type = ibis:Idea

See also: XHTML Outlines and W6 blog notes, also XO and GRDDL

Use Cases

Assertion Processor

Tracking/accumulating assertions made by politians, bloggers etc. (so they can later be petard-hoist).

See http://www.benhammersley.com/dparchives/007958.html#comments

Universal Story ID

Identifying different versions of the same (news) story.

See http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/MikeWalsh/2003/11/28#a161

Brainstorming

Idea in the centre, prompt for who, what, where etc.

Related Work

The idea behind w6 is very similar to evector's W4, only incremented a little to take advantage of the Semantic Web.

Misc Refs.

http://poorbuthappy.com/ease/archives/002455.html

http://doc.weblogs.com/2003/12/27#sayWhere

Previous versions

w6_2004-01-01.owl