Brian Donohue

In ordinary language, I would not say "a religion is an ideology," because of the reasons offered above by swartik (connection to sociopolitical concerns, activism, etc). So I guess this...

Opinion: - Correct, "x requires y" doesn't entail "x prescribes Agent z and z participates in y" - Agreed, if an Action Regulation specifies a particular Agent, this would get...

Thanks for the suggestion! I think the closest we have is "Act of Artifact Modification" in the Event Ontology, a class which is meant to capture changing the qualities, functions,...

Agree both with the goal of switching to alphanumeric IRIs and the need to test/validate/manage the change so as not to unduly break things for CCO consumers. But this could...

@BrianHaugh I find your arguments rather unpersuasive. To address each in turn: 1. "Use of rdfs:label has the effect of establishing a common name for each element." If by "common"...

A few notes to respond to @BrianHaugh 's concerns: - Terms being used in definitions typically reflect the "ontologist-preferred terminology," which needn't be taken as a "standardized name," much less...

To press on this question a bit further, though from a different direction: many (most? potentially all?) Information Content Entities seem to be artifactual. Moreover, capturing the Information Bearing Entity...

I'm a third party in this discussion, but I have a few thoughts: Re: 1. I'm not opposed in principle to representing a target as an entity with a target...