Status of This Document
The Weighted Interests Vocabulary is with the release of version 0.4 now an union of the Weighted Interest Vocabulary
, the E-foaf:interest Vocabulary and the
Interest Mining Ontology. That means, all interest related ontologies are now merged under one hood and some concepts are proper modeled now.
The design of this interest ontology is also strongly influenced by the outcome of the User (weighted) Interests Ontology working group from Hypios VoCamp Paris 2010.
The template of this specification is derived from the FOAF Vocabulary Specification, which was created by Dan Brickley and Libby Miller, and the Music Ontology
Specification, which was created by Yves Raimond. It was modified and extended by Bob Ferris. Furthermore, a modified and extended
version of Danbri's SpecGen version was used to generate most of the RDFa statements of the Weighted Interests
Vocabulary for this specification (see here for SpecGen version 6 by Bob Ferris).
This document is created by combining the RDFS/OWL machine-readable
Weighted Interests Vocabulary with a human-readable HTML representation that includes RDFa annotations. Future versions may
incorporate multilingual translations of term definitions. The RDF/XML version of the specification is also available directly
from the namespace URI. RDF/N3 representations could be access via the links above.
The authors welcome comments on this document, preferably via the author's email addresses.
Table of Contents
The Weighted Interests Vocabulary at a glance
The wi:WeightedInterest concept as graph with relations:
The wi:InterestDynamics concept as graph with relations:
An a-z index of Weighted Interests Vocabulary terms, by class (categories or types), by property and by individual.
Examples
Preferences Example
This example is orginally taken from the first draft of the Weighted Interest Vocabulary and was tranformed to be conform with the current version of
the Weighted Interests Vocabulary.
RDF/Turtle representation of a preferences example with interest dynamics modelling created with the Weighted Interests
Vocabulary (see also RDF and N3 for downloadable representations of this example):
@prefix foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/> .
@prefix wi: <http://purl.org/ontology/wi/core#> .
@prefix wi: <http://purl.org/ontology/wo/core#> .
@prefix days: <http://ontologi.es/days#> .
@prefix tl: <http://perl.org/NET/c4dm/timeline.owl#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix ex: <http://example.org/> .
@prefix event: <http://purl.org/NET/c4dm/event.owl#> .
@prefix geo: <http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#> .
<http://swordfish.rdfweb.org/people/libby/rdfweb/webwho.xrdf#me>
a foaf:Person ;
foaf:name "Libby Miller" ;
wi:preference [
a wi:WeightedInterest ;
wi:topic <http://www.bbc.co.uk/5live#service> ;
wo:weight [
a wo:Weight ;
wo:weight_value 3.0 ;
wo:scale ex:AScale
] ;
wi:interest_dynamics ex:Working
] ;
wi:preference [
a wi:WeightedInterest ;
wi:topic <http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4#service> ;
wi:overall_weight [
a wo:Weight ;
wo:weight_value 7.0 ;
wo:scale ex:AScale
] ;
wo:weight [
a wo:Weight ;
wo:weight_scale 5.0 ;
wo:scale ex:AScale
] ;
wi:interest_dynamics ex:Working
] .
ex:AScale a wo:Scale ;
wo:min_weight 0.0 ;
wo:max_weight 9.0 ;
wo:step_size 1.0 .
ex:Working a wi:InterestDynamics ;
wi:appear_time [
a days:WeekdayInterval ;
tl:at "08:00:00"^^xsd:time ;
tl:end "19:00:00"^^xsd:time
] ;
wo:weight_value 9.0 ;
wo:scale ex:AScale ;
event:place ex:MyWorkingPlace .
ex:MyWorkingPlace a geo:Point .
This example shows a part of a preference model of a person (here Libby Miller). It consists of two preferences, each is modeled as a wi:WeightedInterest instance, which are related to the person by using the property wi:preference. An interest itself consists here at least of a topic (wi:topic), a weight (
wo:weight) and an interest dynamics description (wi:interest_dynamics) relation.
Furthermore, in addition to the standard weight relation (wo:weight), which should reflect the current interest in a
topic, the overall interest in a topic, can be related by using the property (wi:overall_weight) with a
wi:WeightedInterest instance as subject.
The topics of the weights are both a BBC radio program. Every weight is modeled as a wo:Weight instance, which consists here of the weight value (wo:weight_value) and a link to a scale description (wo:Scale). A wo:Scale instance
describes the range (wo:min_weight and wo:max_weight) for the groups of weights, which are linked to it, and furthermore, the step size (wo:step_size), which is possible in this range.
wi:WeightedInterest instances can have different interest dynamics (wi:InterestDynamics) relations. These are specific events (event:Event), which model
temporal interest statistics. Besides the already known time period (days:WeekdayInterval), which is related
by the property wi:appear_time, a temporal weight (related by wo:weight_value, because wi:InterestDynamics is a sub class of wo:Weight) can describe the temporal interest in a topic to a context, which is here
additionally described by a spatial relation (event:place).
To sum up the example, the person Libby Miller prefers radio 4 over radio 5 when he is working at his working place (which is every weekday between 8am and 7pm).
Not-Interest-In Example
This example is orginally taken from the first draft of the Weighted Interest Vocabulary and was tranformed to be conform with the current version of
the Weighted Interests Vocabulary.
RDF/Turtle representation of a not-interest-in example created with the Weighted Interests Vocabulary (see also RDF and N3 for downloadable representations of this example):
@prefix foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/> .
@prefix wi: <http://purl.org/ontology/wi/core#> .
<http://swordfish.rdfweb.org/people/libby/rdfweb/webwho.xrdf#me>
a foaf:Person;
foaf:name "Libby Miller";
wi:not_interested_in <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_X_Factor_(UK)> .
This examples shows,
Scientific Research Interests Example
This example is orginally taken from the E-foaf:interest Vocabulary Specification 0.2 and was tranformed to be conform with the current
version of the Weighted Interests Vocabulary.
RDF/Turtle representation of a scientific research interests created with the Weighted Interests Vocabulary (see also
RDF and N3 for downloadable representations of this example):
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/> .
@prefix tl: <http://purl.org/NET/c4dm/timeline.owl#> .
@prefix dcterms: <http://purl.org/dc/terms/> .
@prefix wi: <http://purl.org/ontology/wi/> .
@prefix wo: <http://purl.org/ontology/wo/> .
@prefix ex: <http://example.org/> .
@prefix time: <http://www.w3.org/2006/time#> .
ex:ASpecificContext a wi:InterestDynamics ;
dcterms:subject <http://dblp.uni-trier.de/rec/bibtex/conf/cikm/AlonsoGB09> ;
wi:appear_time [
a time:UTInstant ;
time:inXSDDateTime "2009-11-15T05:30:00+08:00"^^xsd:dateTime
] .
<http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/b/Baeza=Yates:Ricardo_A=.html>
a foaf:Person ;
foaf:topic_interest <http://www.wici-lab.org/wici/wiki/index.php/Web> ;
wi:preference ex:WebInterest ;
foaf:name "Ricardo Baeza-Yates" .
ex:WebInterest a wi:WeightedInterest ;
wi:topic <http://www.wici-lab.org/wici/wiki/index.php/Web> ;
wi:overall_weight [
a wo:Weight ;
wo:weight_value 65.0 ;
wo:scale ex:AScale ;
dcterms:modified "2009-12-22T23:30:00+08:00"^^xsd:dateTime
] ;
wo:interest_dynamics ex:ASpecificContext ;
wi:ultimative_duration [
a tl:UTInterval ;
tl:duration "P10Y"^^xsd:duration ;
dcterms:modified "2010-01-10T03:15:00+08:00"^^xsd:dateTime
] ;
wi:longest_duration [
a tl:UTInterval ;
tl:duration "P9Y"^^xsd:duration ;
dcterms:modified "2010-01-17T05:30:00+08:00"^^xsd:dateTime
] ;
wo:weight [
a wo:Weight ;
wo:weight_value 7.81 ;
wo:scale ex:AnotherScale ;
dcterms:modified "2010-01-17T13:30:00+08:00"^^xsd:dateTime
] .
ex:AScale a wo:Scale ;
wo:min_weight 0.0 ;
wo:max_weight 100 ;
wo:step_size 5.0 .
ex:AnotherScale a wo:Scale ;
wo:min_weight 0.0 ;
wo:max_weight 10.0 ;
wo:step_size 0.01 .
This examples shows,
Music Preferences Example
RDF/Turtle representation of a music preferences example created with the Weighted Interests Vocabulary (see also RDF and N3 for downloadable representations of this example):
@prefix foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/> .
@prefix wi: <http://purl.org/ontology/wi/core#> .
@prefix wo: <http://purl.org/ontology/wo/core#> .
@prefix days: <http://ontologi.es/days#> .
@prefix tl: <http://perl.org/NET/c4dm/timeline.owl#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix ex: <http://example.org/> .
@prefix event: <http://purl.org/NET/c4dm/event.owl#> .
@prefix dcterms: <http://purl.org/dc/terms/> .
<http://foaf.me/zazi#me>
a foaf:Person ;
foaf:name "Bob Ferris" ;
wi:preference [
a wi:WeightedInterest ;
wi:topic <http://dbtune.org/musicbrainz/resource/artist/20ff3303-4fe2-4a47-a1b6-291e26aa3438> ;
wo:weight [
a wo:Weight ;
wo:weight_value 3.0 ;
wo:scale ex:AScale
] ;
wi:appear_time [
dc:title "working time" ;
a days:WeekdayInterval ;
tl:at "08:00:00"^^xsd:time ;
tl:end "19:00:00"^^xsd:time ;
dcterms:modified "2009-12-14T10:01:00+01:00"^^xsd:dateTime
] ;
] ;
wi:preference [
a wi:WeightedInterest ;
wi:topic <http://dbtune.org/musicbrainz/resource/artist/470a4ced-1323-4c91-8fd5-0bb3fb4c932a> ;
wo:weight [
a wo:Weight ;
wo:weight_value 7.0 ;
wo:scale ex:AScale ;
dcterms:modified "2010-06-18T09:34:00+01:00"^^xsd:dateTime
] ;
wi:overall_weight [
a wo:Weight ;
wo:weight_value 5.0 ;
wo:scale ex:AScale ;
dcterms:modified "2010-07-02T22:20:00+01:00"^^xsd:dateTime
] ;
wi:appear_time [
dc:title "party time" ;
a days:FridayInterval ;
tl:at "23:00:00"^^xsd:time ;
dcterms:modified "2010-03-21T18:40:00+01:00"^^xsd:dateTime
] ;
wi:interest_dynamics ex:TechnoParty ;
wi:interest_dynamics ex:BigFan ;
wi:ultimative_duration [
a tl:UTInterval ;
tl:duration "P13Y"^^xsd:duration ;
dcterms:modified "2010-08-14T17:25:00+01:00"^^xsd:dateTime
] ;
wi:longest_duration [
a tl:UTInterval ;
tl:duration "P5Y"^^xsd:duration ;
tl:at "2001-02-02T00:00:00+01:00"^^xsd:dateTime ;
tl:end "2005-10-21T00:00:00+01:00"^^xsd:dateTime ;
dcterms:modified "2010-08-14T17:25:00+01:00"^^xsd:dateTime
] ;
] ;
wi:not_interested_in <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Category:Schlager> ;
wi:not_interested_in <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Category:German_folk_music> .
ex:AScale a wo:Scale ;
wo:min_weight 0.0 ;
wo:max_weight 9.0 ;
wo:step_size 1.0 .
ex:TechnoParty a wi:InterestDynamics ;
wi:appear_time [
a tl:UTInterval ;
tl:at "2010-04-03T23:30:00+01:00"^^xsd:dateTime ;
tl:end "2010-04-04T05:30:00+01:00"^^xsd:dateTime
] ;
wo:weight_value 9.0 ;
wo:scale ex:AScale ;
event:place <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Tresor> ;
dcterms:subject <http://www.residentadvisor.net/event.aspx?151690> .
ex:BigFan a wi:InterestDynamics ;
wi:appear_time [
a tl:UTInterval ;
tl:at "2001-02-02T00:00:00+01:00"^^xsd:dateTime ;
tl:end "2005-10-21T00:00:00+01:00"^^xsd:dateTime
] ;
wo:weight_value 9.0 ;
wo:scale ex:AScale .
Introduction: Weighted Interests Vocabulary Basics
What's the Weighted Interests Vocabulary for?
The Weighted Interests Vocabulary
Background
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The Weighted Interests Vocabulary and Standards
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The Weighted Interests Vocabulary Description
This specification serves as the Weighted Interests Vocabulary "namespace document". As
such it describes the Weighted Interests Vocabulary and the terms (RDF classes and properties) that
constitute it, so that Semantic Web applications can
use those terms in a variety of RDF-compatible document formats
and applications.
This document presents the Weighted Interests Vocabulary as a Semantic Web vocabulary or
Ontology. The Weighted Interests Vocabulary is pretty simple,
pragmatic and designed to allow simultaneous deployment and
extension. The Weighted Interests Vocabulary is intended for widescale use, but its authors
make no commitments regarding its suitability for any particular
purpose.
Evolution and Extension of the Weighted Interests Vocabulary
The Weighted Interests Vocabulary is identified by the namespace URI
'http://purl.org/ontology/wi/core#'. Revisions and
extensions of the Weighted Interests Vocabulary are conducted through edits to this document,
which by convention is accessible in the Web via the namespace URI.
For practical and deployment reasons, note that we do not
update the namespace URI as the vocabulary matures.
The evolution of the Weighted Interests Vocabulary is best considered in terms of the
stability of individual vocabulary terms, rather than the
specification as a whole. As terms stabilise in usage and
documentation, they progress through the categories
'unstable', 'testing' and
'stable'. Older terms are marked 'archaic' which allows the possibility of older forms to become modern again.
Note that this mechanism is itself somewhat experimental and evolvin. The definitions of 'stable', 'unstable', 'archaic' and 'testing' cannot
be defined as global absolutes, but only in relationship to the practices, expectations and social structures around some vocabulary. For their use in
the Weighted Interests Vocabulary, future versions of this specification could usefully offer more detail about what to expect from a term labelled 'stable'.
I would like to thank very much the creators of the different interest ontologies, where this multiple purpose interest ontology is based on. That means, Dan Brickley, Dave Reynolds,
Libby Miller, Toby Inkster, Yi Zeng, Yan Wang, Danica Damljanovic, Zhisheng Huang, Alexandre Passant, Sheila Kinsella and John Breslin.
