Re: blog: semantic dissonance in uniprot

On 24 Mar 2009, at 12:20, samwald@gmx.at wrote:

>
>>   Can any one name a real world example of where confusion between an
>> entity and its record was issue?
>
> I would say that 80% of the RDF/OWL ontologies lingering somewhere  
> on the web are examples.

Such a violation of Sturgeon's Law[1] would be cause for much rejoicing!

But is the crappiness of these ontologies primarily use/mention issues?

I'd be interested in doing a survey on this to determine how  
widespread the problem really is. Is there a reasonable corpus that  
approximates your experience?

Cheers,
Bijan.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon's_law

Received on Tuesday, 24 March 2009 12:30:42 UTC