Re: [ANN] tawny-owl 0.11

2013-05-23 Thread Phillip Lord
Thank you for adding this. I've added some text to my README, so that the next release will have more information. As I have said, in another reply, Clojure developers are not my primary audience; this seems like a reasonable excuse for early versions, but is much less plausible now I approach a 1

Re: [ANN] tawny-owl 0.11

2013-05-22 Thread Rich Morin
On May 22, 2013, at 04:41, Phillip Lord wrote: > I'm pleased to announce the release of tawny-owl 0.11. > > What is it? > == > > This package allows users to construct OWL ontologies ... Not surprisingly, most Clojurists are not familiar with ontologies in general or OWL ontologies in p

Re: [ANN] tawny-owl 0.11

2013-05-22 Thread Phillip Lord
Paul Gearon writes: > On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 9:24 AM, Phillip Lord > wrote: >> >> >> It's a good question; the library is more intended for people who know >> ontologies and don't care, or have never heard about, clojure. So the >> documentation is biased in that way. >> > > This message origina

Re: [ANN] tawny-owl 0.11

2013-05-22 Thread Phillip Lord
Ah, now, that is a complicated question with a long history. If I may duck the question slightly, and just answer about OWL (it's not the only ontology representation language). Trivially, of course, the answer is yes. An ontology is representable as a graph, but then a graph is a rich enough da

Re: [ANN] tawny-owl 0.11

2013-05-22 Thread Phillip Lord
Jim writes: > I am certainly not an ontology guru but I can confirm that what you describe > is sort of valid...Ontologies will indeed help you find predicate-argument > structures of the form subject->predicate->object (i.e "John likes pizza"), > but in order to do that you have to build the doma

Re: [ANN] tawny-owl 0.11

2013-05-22 Thread Paul Gearon
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 9:24 AM, Phillip Lord wrote: > > > It's a good question; the library is more intended for people who know > ontologies and don't care, or have never heard about, clojure. So the > documentation is biased in that way. > This message originally confused me. For some reason I

Re: [ANN] tawny-owl 0.11

2013-05-22 Thread Jim
On 22/05/13 15:11, atkaaz wrote: Would you say that ontologies can be modeled on top of graphs? so in a way they can be seen as a specific use case for graphs? (maybe directed acyclic graphs), that's what I am getting the sense of so far I am certainly not an ontology guru but I can confirm th

Re: [ANN] tawny-owl 0.11

2013-05-22 Thread atkaaz
Would you say that ontologies can be modeled on top of graphs? so in a way they can be seen as a specific use case for graphs? (maybe directed acyclic graphs), that's what I am getting the sense of so far On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 4:47 PM, atkaaz wrote: > Thank you very much for this! I find it

Re: [ANN] tawny-owl 0.11

2013-05-22 Thread atkaaz
Thank you very much for this! I find it very interesting, I shall keep reading On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Phillip Lord wrote: > > > It's a good question; the library is more intended for people who know > ontologies and don't care, or have never heard about, clojure. So the > documentation

Re: [ANN] tawny-owl 0.11

2013-05-22 Thread Phillip Lord
It's a good question; the library is more intended for people who know ontologies and don't care, or have never heard about, clojure. So the documentation is biased in that way. In this setting, an ontology is essentially a set of facts, that you can test with a computational reasoner; so, it's

Re: [ANN] tawny-owl 0.11

2013-05-22 Thread Andrew Wagner
I went looking for the same thing. There are a few partial examples in the docs directory that might be worth looking at. On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 8:06 AM, atkaaz wrote: > For those who don't know the concepts (aka me) can we get a working > example of what can be done ? I'm having a strange fee

Re: [ANN] tawny-owl 0.11

2013-05-22 Thread atkaaz
For those who don't know the concepts (aka me) can we get a working example of what can be done ? I'm having a strange feeling that ontologies(although I've never heard the word/idea before except from you) might be something similar to what I am searching for... Possibly an example that showcases

[ANN] tawny-owl 0.11

2013-05-22 Thread Phillip Lord
I'm pleased to announce the release of tawny-owl 0.11. What is it? == This package allows users to construct OWL ontologies in a fully programmatic environment, namely Clojure. This means the user can take advantage of programmatic language to automate and abstract the ontology over the