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I am making a RDF feed for Marseille Provence 2013, which is a series of cultural events that will take place in 2013 in Marseille in France through 2013. Here is the RDF : http://api.mp2013.fr/rdf More than 500 events are in the feed. The RDF is built from a source that gives us information about accessibility (in the large acceptation of the word) for each event : accessibility for handicapped people, for children, animals accepted or not). I can't find any semantic vocabulary available for describing accessibility characteristics for events (or services) nor can I find any study on the matter. Does somebody know if a standard semantic vocabulary exists for accessibility and if not, what would be the best practice to start a new standard ? |
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Take a look at the Ticket ontology http://www.heppnetz.de/ontologies/tio/ns.html Object properties include eligible audiences and age ranges: http://www.heppnetz.de/ontologies/tio/ns.html#oprops You may not get everything you need from this ontology, but its definitely the place to start |
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While the tickets ontology models age eligibility well, I think that its important to consider disability very carefully before trying to reuse a vocabulary to describe accessibility. eg. I wouldn't model it as an "ineligibility criterion" for people attending the event (eg. http://vocab.muni-ontology.org/classes/Wheelchair_users.html), The ICF - http://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/1411 and http://www.meteck.org/teaching/ontologies/adolena.owl might be interesting for a more in depth example of modelling disability. I think that it is preferable to describe a building or events facilities ie. will it be convenient for somebody in a wheelchair to attend this event. A class such as http://purl.org/ontology/muni#Accessible_buildings isn't really suitable because some rooms are accessible eg. ground floor, while some are relatively inaccessible eg. top floor with no lift. (Exhaustingly describing bathroom facilities, lifts, ramp slopes, door widths etc. would be tedious though) Personally I would be keen to find/coin a custom boolean property of "isWheelchairAccessible" for an event. ?see - http://sigma.ontologyportal.org:4010/sigma/OWL.jsp?kb=SUMO&term=WheelchairAccessible |
