- From: Valentina Presutti <vpresutti@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 02:42:26 +0200
- To: public-lod community <public-lod@w3.org>
- Cc: Valentina Presutti <vpresutti@gmail.com>
Received on Monday, 13 October 2014 00:42:56 UTC
Dear all, I noticed that dbpedia:Bachelor_of_Arts, as well as other similar entities (dbpedia:Bachelor_of_Engineering, dbpedia:Bachelor_of_Science, etc.), is typed as dbpedia-owl:University I would expect a type like �Academic Degree� but if you look at dbpedia:Academic_Degree, its type is again dbpedia-owl:University however, its definition is (according to dbpedia): "An academic degree is a college or university diploma, often associated with a title and sometimes associated with an academic position, which is usually awarded in recognition of the recipient having either satisfactorily completed a prescribed course of study or having conducted a scholarly endeavour deemed worthy of his or her admission to the degree. The most common degrees awarded today are associate, bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees.� Showing that there are at least two different meanings associated with the term: college/university and title. I thing that different meanings should be separated so as to allow applications to refer to the different entities: a university or a title. At least for me this causes errors in automatic relation extraction... Wdyt? Valentina
Received on Monday, 13 October 2014 00:42:56 UTC