Re: owl:sameAs - Harmful to provenance?

And the same can be said for teaching people how to construct *useful*
ontologies (in OWL or any other language for that matter). If the
principles are simple and coherent, then the execution will be
straightforward and effective.

m.


On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>wrote:

> On 4/9/13 12:40 PM, Phillip Lord wrote:
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>> Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com> writes:
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>>  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
>>
>>
>>
>>  Phil,
>
> I do agree totally with the notion of not teaching folks RDF by always
> inferring that they are doing it wrong :-)
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