Re: owl:sameAs use/misuse/abuse Re: homonym URIs

Hello!


> Consider that I work for two different companies (in the morning and in
> the afternoon).
> Both have a URI for me. Company 1 would state
>
> comp1:champin emp:name "Champin" ;
>               emp:salary "1000€" .
>
> Company 2, on the other hand, would state
>
> comp2:champin emp:name "Champin" ;
>               emp:salary "2000€" .
>
> using the same standardized properties, which happen to be functional.
>
> It would seem legitimate to state that
>
> comp1:champin owl:sameAs comp2:champin .
>
> But that would lead to inconsistency (two different values for a
> functional property).
>
> Both URIs denote me, but not the same "me", only the "me" I am from the
> point of view of each company.
>

Well, that's exactly where you need to "contextualize" information.
These two statements come from different places, and you need to track
this context information as well - the first is "what company 1 states
about me" and the second is "what company 2 states about me", and the
two are relevant - the point is that they both speak about you
(therefore legitimating the use of owl:sameAs). That's exactly where
named graphs come into place.

Best,
Yves