Issue 9943: Section: 8.7 (sbvr-ftf) Source: Business Semantics Ltd. (Mr. Donald R. Chapin, Donald.Chapin(at)BusinessSemantics.com) Nature: Clarification Severity: Critical Summary: ISSUE: Major Categories of 'Thing' Need to be Related and Made Clear Important in any case, but especially so with the inclusion of 'objects' as vocabulary entires, the major concepts that are subcategories of 'thing' such as 'state of affairs', 'actuality', 'expression', 'res', 'object', (as defined by the terminology community), etc. need to be related and clarified to such the major divisions of 'thing' that are significant in SBVR of SBVR. This will make the real world cornerstone of SVCR much clearer for new audiences. Resolution: Deferred to second SBVR Revision Task Force because there were more foundational issues that had to be resolved first, and it was very important SBVR v1.1 out as soon as they were done. Disposition: Deferred Revised Text: Actions taken: July 24, 2006: received isuse Discussion: This Issue was received just before the Issue deadline which was only 6 weeks before the FTF report was due, and more basic Issues had to be resolved first. End of Annotations:===== m: webmaster@omg.org Date: 24 Jul 2006 12:24:00 -0400 To: Subject: Issue/Bug Report -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Donald Chapin Company: Business Semanitcs Ltd mailFrom: Donald.Chapin@btinternet.com Notification: No Specification: SBVR Section: 8.7 FormalNumber: dtc/06-03-02 Version: Interim Specification RevisionDate: March 2006 Page: 35 Nature: Clarification Severity: Critical HTTP User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727) Description ISSUE: Major Categories of 'Thing' Need to be Related and Made Clear Important in any case, but especially so with the inclusion of 'objects' as vocabulary entires, the major concepts that are subcategories of 'thing' such as 'state of affairs', 'actuality', 'expression', 'res', 'object', (as defined by the terminology community), etc. need to be related and clarified to such the major divisions of 'thing' that are significant in SBVR of SBVR. This will make the real world cornerstone of SVCR much clearer for new audiences. Subject: RE: issue 9943 -- SBVR FTF issue Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 17:46:09 -0700 X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: issue 9943 -- SBVR FTF issue thread-index: AcavWO0FNiW2HBuvQNuwVdA2ZH+xyAGc4WmQ From: "Baisley, Donald E" To: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 02 Aug 2006 00:46:10.0681 (UTC) FILETIME=[0C5A5E90:01C6B5CD] Section 8 is about meaning and representation and it makes a point of explaining the categories of thing that are relevant to its topic. Are you looking for a single UML diagram that shows what is defined directly under .thing.? We are certainly not going to add a bunch of new concepts for the sake of having an upper ontology. And we don.t need to restate the work of the .terminology community.. Is it a picture you want? Regards, Don -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Juergen Boldt [mailto:juergen@omg.org] Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 12:37 PM To: issues@omg.org; sbvr-ftf@omg.org Subject: issue 9943 -- SBVR FTF issue From: webmaster@omg.org Date: 24 Jul 2006 12:24:00 -0400 To: Subject: Issue/Bug Report -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Donald Chapin Company: Business Semanitcs Ltd mailFrom: Donald.Chapin@btinternet.com Notification: No Specification: SBVR Section: 8.7 FormalNumber: dtc/06-03-02 Version: Interim Specification RevisionDate: March 2006 Page: 35 Nature: Clarification Severity: Critical HTTP User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727) Description ISSUE: Major Categories of 'Thing' Need to be Related and Made Clear Important in any case, but especially so with the inclusion of 'objects' as vocabulary entires, the major concepts that are subcategories of 'thing' such as 'state of affairs', 'actuality', 'expression', 'res', 'object', (as defined by the terminology community), etc. need to be related and clarified to such the major divisions of 'thing' that are significant in SBVR of SBVR. This will make the real world cornerstone of SVCR much clearer for new audiences. Juergen Boldt Director, Member Services Object Management Group 140 Kendrick St Building A Suite 300 Needham, MA 02494 USA tel: +1 781 444 0404 x 132 fax: +1 781 444 0320 email: juergen@omg.org www.omg.org Subject: RE: issue 9943 -- SBVR FTF issue Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:36:32 -0700 X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: issue 9943 -- SBVR FTF issue Thread-Index: AcavWO0FNiW2HBuvQNuwVdA2ZH+xyA+J6uTw From: "Baisley, Donald E" To: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 11 Oct 2006 22:36:32.0741 (UTC) FILETIME=[B3AB2950:01C6ED85] Donald was asking for the major categories of thing. The following is what SBVR now shows as far as I could tell. Within .Meaning and Representation. the most significant distinctions are explained up front with examples. Major Categories of Thing from SBVR: Meaning and Representation Conceptual Schema Expression Fact Model Meaning Namespace Reference Scheme Set State of affairs Logical Formulation of Semantics Bindable Target Role Binding Semantic Formulation Business Vocabulary Categorization Scheme Community Res Viewpoint Business Rules Level of enforcement I did not include .Representation. . whether it fits under .State of Affairs. depends on the outcome of Issue 9932. I did not include .situation. because it is defined to be a set, but the definition.s use of .set. is informal (unstyled). Similarly, I did not include .body of shared concepts. and .body of shared guidance. which appear to be specializations of .set.. I did not include .integer. because we had decided not to deal with its generalization to .quantity.. A full generalization path would go up to .thing. through .meaning.. In a grand picture, someone could put all of the above concepts except for .meaning. and .res. underneath .res.. But those concepts don.t actually have .. is a res. (a.k.a. .. is not a meaning.) in their intensions. The picture would show the result of reasoning, not the SBVR defined meanings. Regards, Don -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Juergen Boldt [mailto:juergen@omg.org] Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 12:37 PM To: issues@omg.org; sbvr-ftf@omg.org Subject: issue 9943 -- SBVR FTF issue From: webmaster@omg.org Date: 24 Jul 2006 12:24:00 -0400 To: Subject: Issue/Bug Report -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Donald Chapin Company: Business Semanitcs Ltd mailFrom: Donald.Chapin@btinternet.com Notification: No Specification: SBVR Section: 8.7 FormalNumber: dtc/06-03-02 Version: Interim Specification RevisionDate: March 2006 Page: 35 Nature: Clarification Severity: Critical HTTP User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727) Description ISSUE: Major Categories of 'Thing' Need to be Related and Made Clear Important in any case, but especially so with the inclusion of 'objects' as vocabulary entires, the major concepts that are subcategories of 'thing' such as 'state of affairs', 'actuality', 'expression', 'res', 'object', (as defined by the terminology community), etc. need to be related and clarified to such the major divisions of 'thing' that are significant in SBVR of SBVR. This will make the real world cornerstone of SVCR much clearer for new audiences. Juergen Boldt Director, Member Services Object Management Group 140 Kendrick St Building A Suite 300 Needham, MA 02494 USA tel: +1 781 444 0404 x 132 fax: +1 781 444 0320 email: juergen@omg.org www.omg.org X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1163249238-6510-24-0 X-Barracuda-URL: http://10.3.1.19:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Reply-To: From: "Donald Chapin" To: X-ASG-Orig-Subj: RE: issue 9943 -- SBVR FTF issue - Top Level Strawman Subject: RE: issue 9943 -- SBVR FTF issue - Top Level Strawman Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 07:47:00 -0500 Organization: Business Semantics Ltd X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 Thread-Index: AcavWKXI5MqIyClwQpKUSUnQWT9PExWNnqLQ X-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at stayonline.net X-Barracuda-Spam-Score: 0.26 X-Barracuda-Spam-Status: No, SCORE=0.26 using global scores of TAG_LEVEL=1000.0 QUARANTINE_LEVEL=1000.0 KILL_LEVEL=4.0 tests=HTML_FONT_BIG X-Barracuda-Spam-Report: Code version 3.02, rules version 3.0.25687 Rule breakdown below pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- 0.26 HTML_FONT_BIG BODY: HTML tag for a big font size -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Juergen Boldt [mailto:juergen@omg.org] Sent: 24 July 2006 15:37 To: issues@omg.org; sbvr-ftf@omg.org Subject: issue 9943 -- SBVR FTF issue From: webmaster@omg.org Date: 24 Jul 2006 12:24:00 -0400 To: Subject: Issue/Bug Report -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Donald Chapin Company: Business Semanitcs Ltd mailFrom: Donald.Chapin@btinternet.com Notification: No Specification: SBVR Section: 8.7 FormalNumber: dtc/06-03-02 Version: Interim Specification RevisionDate: March 2006 Page: 35 Nature: Clarification Severity: Critical HTTP User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727) Description ISSUE: Major Categories of 'Thing' Need to be Related and Made Clear Important in any case, but especially so with the inclusion of 'objects' as vocabulary entires, the major concepts that are subcategories of 'thing' such as 'state of affairs', 'actuality', 'expression', 'res', 'object', (as defined by the terminology community), etc. need to be related and clarified to such the major divisions of 'thing' that are significant in SBVR of SBVR. This will make the real world cornerstone of SVCR much clearer for new audiences. Juergen Boldt Director, Member Services Object Management Group 140 Kendrick St Building A Suite 300 Needham, MA 02494 USA tel: +1 781 444 0404 x 132 fax: +1 781 444 0320 email: juergen@omg.org www.omg.org Issue 9943 Major Categories of Thing - Top Level Strawman.doc Issue 9943: Major Categories of Thing Top Level Stawman Saturday, November 11, 2006 v Thing (= Subject [Topic Maps]; = Resource [W3C]) Ø Res (anything that exists outside the minds of people) § Physical Thing · Physical Thing in General · Expression § Non-Physical Res Ø Meaning (anything that exists only in the minds of people) § Concept · Noun Concept · Verb Concept § Proposition § Question