Re: owl:sameAs - Harmful to provenance?

Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com> writes:

> On 4/9/13 11:31 AM, Phillip Lord wrote:
>> Compare all you like. RDF is just another technology; it's not going to
>> let me do anything that I cannot do in another way.
> So you are questioning its unique selling points, I assume? 

No. I don't care. I just care whether it's useful. Who cares whether
it's uniquely useful.

> If so, can you point us to a technology that addresses the issue of
> grounding logic in data
> -- in a manner that's totally platform independent?

It's a data representation technology. Lots of things do this. "Totally
platform independent". I don't know what "platform" means these days. 

> We want to be able to leverage logic in the process of actual data
> representation, access, integration, and management. I know of no technology
> that addresses the problem like RDF i.e., in a platform agnostic manner that
> echoes the essence of the Web itself.

RDF is nice. It's useful. It will remain useful, at least if people are
allowed to use it without being told that they are doing it all wrong.

I am not attacking RDF; I am attacking the notion that everything has to
be perfect, to work in every circumstance, for it to be useful at all. 

Phil

Received on Tuesday, 9 April 2013 16:40:40 UTC