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Re: Ambiguous names. was: Re: URL +1, LSID -1

From: Eric Jain <Eric.Jain@isb-sib.ch>
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:09:03 +0200
Message-ID: <469B7BFF.2020508@isb-sib.ch>
To: Matthias Samwald <samwald@gmx.at>
CC: eneumann@teranode.com, Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>, wangxiao@musc.edu, Michel_Dumontier <Michel_Dumontier@carleton.ca>, public-semweb-lifesci <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>, Mark Wilkinson <markw@illuminae.com>, Benjamin Good <goodb@interchange.ubc.ca>, Natalia Villanueva Rosales <naty.vr@gmail.com> 

Matthias Samwald wrote:
> Well, they might talk like database entries and physical objects would
> be the same, but this is not what they *think*. With the Semantic Web /
> ontologies we want to capture the semantics and the actual thinking, not
> the linguistic / textual surface representations.

http://purl.uniprot.org/uniprot/P12345 does not represent any physical 
object, but it is a useful generalization of certain physical objects that 
you might find. It's an artificial construct, which is why having a 
separate concept for a corresponding "database record" seems like overkill?
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