Experience & observation In what ways can one person be engaged in a single activity? What personal observations were produced by reflecting upon an activity being carried out? Which activities performed by someone have prompted an observation from that person and which haven't? It decomposes the lax notion of experience (e.g. through engaging in reading a book or incidentally hearing some music) into distinguishable elements that can be used in e.g. text annotation with greater precision than with a single named entity representing the experience. to represent the epistemological "missing link" between a cognitive activity, e.g. the interaction with a cultural object, and any evidence of the effects this activity has on the individuals that are engaged with it; what can collectively be considered as an experience. PREFIX : <http://modellingdh.github.io/ont/odp/term/> PREFIX activ: <http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/icity/ActivitySpecification/> SELECT DISTINCT ?activity WHERE { { ?activity a :Prompt } UNION { ?activity a activ:Activity ; :produced [ ] } } PREFIX : <http://modellingdh.github.io/ont/odp/term/> PREFIX activ: <http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/icity/ActivitySpecification/> SELECT DISTINCT ?observation WHERE { ?activity a activ:Activity ; :includes ?observation . ?observation a :Observation } PREFIX : <http://modellingdh.github.io/ont/odp/term/> SELECT DISTINCT ?engagement ?activity WHERE { ?engagement :onActivity ?activity } Charles Dickens wrote in his report on visiting a village near Carrara, Italy: "It contains a beautiful little Theatre, newly built; and it is an interesting custom there, to form the chorus of labourers in the marble quarries, who are self-taught and sing by ear. I heard them in a comic opera, and in an act of “Norma;” and they acquitted themselves very well; unlike the common people of Italy generally, who (with some exceptions among the Neapolitans) sing vilely out of tune, and have very disagreeable singing voices." https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1382364120 This passage describes: - the setting of an activity (description of the Theatre, interest in the village custom) - the activity (Dickens listening to the marble quarry labourers sing Norma) - observation on the activities themselves (critique on the chorus' singing performance) - observation on his engagement in that and prior activities (it was unlike what most Italians he had heard sing) This content pattern accepts the notion of Activity as defined in the ActivitySpecification CP, but defines has engagement what activity/ies are affecting or affected by a certain engagement in activity A relation of mereological nature that connects a given observation with the activity that originates them: it strengthens the argument that observations are always active processes from a cognitive standpoint, regardless of how conscious they may be. A standard mereological property from another content pattern may be used in lieu of this one and therefore aligned with it. includes Because an activity may engage other participants than the one performing it, engagements are in general considered individual rather than collective, therefore each participants has their own engagement and only some of them will be conscious and/or documented. engaged in is reflected upon in Used to connect the subjective elements of an experience with the corresponding observation, which is extrapolated from the content being interacted with and in itself may not be including a critique. is reflection on This property can be used to denote that something is (even indirectly, not necessary through direct reflection) responsible for the existence of an observation. produced observation The product of a reflection upon an observation, which embodies subjective traits of an experience (Example: "After reading this passage of 'To Kill a Mockingbird', I came to a clearer understanding of the many facets of social intolerance"). Engagement The product of an act of scrutiny which may or may not have been performed with a critical disposition (Example: "My thoughts from reading this passage of 'To Kill a Mockingbird'"). A disjointness or alignment between this class and <http://www.ontologydesignpatterns.org/cp/owl/observation.owl#Observation> in the Observation content pattern is plausible but subject to debate, hence will not be formalised herein. Observation The stimulus within an activity that causes an observation. Prompt