- From: Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net>
- Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2013 11:00:37 +0200
- To: "Andreas Kuckartz" <A.Kuckartz@ping.de>
- Cc: "Melvin Carvalho" <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>, "Kingsley Idehen" <kidehen@openlinksw.com>, "public-webid" <public-webid@w3.org>
On 3 Jun 2013, at 10:41, "Andreas Kuckartz" <A.Kuckartz@ping.de> wrote:
> Henry Story:
>> { foaf:Agent owl:equivalentClass other:Agent } makes it easy to
>> switch between different ontologies.
>
> Yes, it is easy, but it is not optimal. Also see:
>
> owl:equivalentClass and owl:sameAs considered troublesome?
> http://answers.semanticweb.com/questions/12040/owlequivalentclass-and-owlsameas-considered-troublesome
>
> Creating a new ontology for the same purpose might simplify creating it
> but it does not really help users.
So what do you suggest? foaf is very well known, reasonably well done,
and widely deployed. Not much hangs on our use of foaf:Agent . For social
networks it works well.
>
> Cheers,
> Andreas
Social Web Architect
http://bblfish.net/
Received on Monday, 3 June 2013 09:01:12 UTC