wdduncan/capabilities-ontology

Repository for coordinating work for potential capabilities onotology

capabilities-ontology's Issues

Use case for capabilities

Use cases:
Are there domains we want to focus on representing? Of these domains are there standard questions/queries that data represented using the ontology should be able to answer?

In the graphic, capability is a kind of realizable entity. That seems like a safe starting place. But what about a skill? Can entity lose a skill w/o being physically changed? This seems unlikely to me, which would mean a skill is a type of disposition.

The question above holds for capabilities in general: can an entity lose a capability and not be physically changed? If the answer to this is "yes", then we need to decide if capabilities are a kind of role, or a sibling of role.

Also, and this is pure speculation on my part, is a capability a kind of realizable entity (i.e., only exhibited/manifested in processes)? If not, then perhaps a kind of relational quality?

Having some use cases will help greatly in addressing these questions.