Re: Format of tokens

From: Andrea Preite Martinez <andrea.preitemartinez-at-iasf-roma.inaf.it>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 09:32:11 +0100


Hi Brian,

> #AstroObject
> # CompoundObject
>
> This looks like a 'grouping' concept which is always 'abstract'
> (never a direct instance
> created. Do we really want stuff like that in the Thesaurus/Vocab?
> I'll agree its needed
> in the Ontology, just not sure about in the dictionary where I'd
> expect all the concepts
> to be 'concrete'.

I'm not proposing anything. Just wanted to show that if you want to better navigate in the vocabulary you need to define "groups" that can also be "abstract", why not. If it's good for an ontology...

>
> # Unknown
>
> This one is problematic..I'd expect it to not be a descendant of
> 'AstroObject' since there are
> other types of unknowns.

It was not counted among the 7 TopLevel. It's an empty bag used for test classification!

Andrea


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