Re: How do you deprecate URIs? Re: OWL-DL and linked data

2008/7/8 Richard H. McCullough <rhm@pioneerca.com>:
>
> I haven't been following the "deprecate URIs" thread, so forgive me if I'm
> being repetitious.
> 1. everything is contextual.  But that's no excuse for being sloppy with
> meanings.

The issue with published ontologies is that you don't know what the
context is going to be when someone uses any given term. You can
attempt to restrict it but that doesn't promote reuse.

> 2. ambiguity is not inevitable -- it is avoided by clearly identifying
> context.

If you don't know the context a priori, and you aren't attempting to
recreate the entire world in your monolithic ontology this isn't a
useful suggestion.

> 2. OWL:SameAs (like mKR:is) means identical -- two names (aliases) which
> mean the same thing.  Let's not corrupt the meaning of this term.

I think most of the discussion is about how you describe to someone
how to decide if two names "mean the same thing". It doesn't seem at
all obvious what they should be told past the equivalent data
structures method, which isn't useful for the situation here

> 3. there are other terms which can be used to express varying degrees of similarity.

What are they, and what software supports them? That is in effect the
64 thousand dollar question here!

Cheers,

Peter

Received on Monday, 7 July 2008 23:30:02 UTC