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

On 14/06/2007 16:11, Pierre-Antoine Champin wrote:
> 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.

You modelled it such that each person may have only a single salary, yet 
you found someone with two. Either the data is wrong or your model is 
wrong. That's all the inconsistency tells you.

Ian
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