Add info to association qualifiers describing which part of the statement they apply to

[Woozl]

We're developing a UI to allow the creation of fully-qualified statements using associations and noticed during the process that there doesn't seem to be a way to tell which part of the statement a qualifier applies to. We'd like to be able to know this to co-locate the qualifiers in the UI with the part of the statement they describe. The model already defines the type of the qualifier with the normal is_a hierarchy, so I'm not sure if the best method is another slot like defines or applies_to:

  subject context qualifier:
    is_a: context qualifier
+   applies_to: subject
    in_subset:
      - translator_minimal

Or if it's better to have some abstract qualifiers that can be mixed in:

+ subject qualifier:
+   abstract: true

  subject context qualifier:
    is_a: context qualifier
+   mixins:
+     - subject qualifier
    in_subset:
      - translator_minimal

Or maybe there's another way to do this that's easier. I think we only need to differentiate between "subject", "object", and "statement" qualifiers (I believe predicate qualifiers will always be qualified predicate but I may be wrong).

[nlharris]

Hi @Woozl, thanks for submitting this question/request. Are you associated with Translator?

[Woozl]

Hi, yes, we're working on the ROBOKOP UI.