The Event Ontology
This document describes the Event ontology developed in the Centre for Digital Music in Queen Mary, University of London. The first draft of the ontology was written in October, 2004. Further details about the Event ontology, related ontologies, and the technologies on which this ontology is founded, please see the reference section.
This ontology is centered around the notion of event, seen here as the way by which cognitive agents classify arbitrary time/space regions, which is essentially the view expressed by Allen and Fergusson:
[..] events are primarily linguistic or cognitive in nature. That is, the world does not really contain events. Rather, events are the way by which agents classify certain useful and relevant patterns of change.
This ontology has already been proven useful in a wide range of context, due to its simplicity and usability: from talks in a conference, to description of a concert, or chords being played in a Jazz piece (when used with the Timeline ontology), festivals, etc. Relevant references are given in the reference section. Some tools to manipulate data from this ontology can be found in the motools project on Sourceforge.
This documentation page is a first draft. All feedback on either the ontology or this page is welcomed! The best place to do so is the Event ontology mailing list. Or feel free to email the authors mentioned aboved.
The design and layout of this ontology document is based on the Music Ontology and FOAF Vocabulary specification documents.
Homepage: http://motools.sourceforge.net/event/event.html
Creators: Yves Raimond, Samer Abdallah
Namespace URI: http://motools.sf.net/event/event.122.html with preferred namespace prefix “Event”.
The preferred namespace prefix “Event” is defined on: Each preferred namespace prefix on this platform must be unique. Please edit the pages above, changing all but one namespace prefix. In general, you should keep the namespace on the most prominent or largest vocabulary unchanged. If a prefix is already defined on a concept scheme, do not repeat that definition in a collection.
The namespace URI Http://motools.sf.net/event/event.122.html that is based on the SMW-import-page MediaWiki:Smw import Event (used, e.g. for RDF export) has no matching namespace prefix and namespace URI definition on the concept scheme page; please add one!
