[MOBY-dev] Primitives as primary input

[Pieter Neerincx]

Hi,

On 10-jan-2008, at 17:35, Mark Wilkinson wrote:

> Hi Andreas!
>
> That's a very interesting case!  Is "email" a data-type (Object) or  
> a semantic-type (Namespace)??  It is a semantic type in the sense  
> that all email addresses are unique, and therefore behave as  
> identifiers... but it is often used as a data-type in that it would  
> be associated with other information like an address and telephone  
> number.
>
> Personally I would be tempted to make a new namespace  
> 'emailAddress' or something like that, since semantic "precision"  
> is the goal of these two ontologies.
>
> What did we do for URLs?  ...LOL!  Okay, I just went to have a look  
> in the ontologies and we have an Object "URL" and a Namespace  
> "URL"!!!  I guess others have had the same question and made  
> different decisions :-)  I see that it is Pieter's services that  
> consume the Object "URL" - maybe he can explain to us why he chose  
> to make URL an object rather than a namespace.
>
> Pieter?

I've been struggling with this question as well. If you check the  
object ontology you'll see I also registered an Email object. Email  
addresses and URLs can be both a data-type (Object) and a semantic- 
type (Namespace), so maybe it would be best to use both. Actually I  
was waiting for a response of the founding father a.k.a. chief  
architect to clarify this one :)...

We give several courses which involve BioMOBY and usually the part  
where the students have to:
  * choose whether to recycle existing objects & namespaces or design  
new objects & namespaces
  * and if they choose to design new ones, come up with the exact  
structure for those objects & namespaces
is the most difficult part of the entire course.

Cheers,

Pi


> M
>
>
>
> On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 03:20:11 -0800, Andreas Groscurth  
> <groscurt at mpiz-koeln.mpg.de> wrote:
>
>> And hi again,
>>
>> we just had the discussion here... is it recommended to use  
>> primitives as
>> primary input ? Or are there actually only for use in secondary  
>> parameters or
>> as part of a complex datatype ?
>>
>> E.g. if a service requires an email as input - give it an object with
>> namespace 'email' or similar - or could I use String with  
>> namespace 'email'
>>
>> Thanks and byebye
>> andreas
>>
>
>
>
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