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

From: Bijan Parsia <bparsia@cs.man.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 16:04:41 +0100
Message-Id: <6B01CA45-8FF7-4248-BD6B-42A7E3B364AD@cs.man.ac.uk>
Cc: "Booth, David \(HP Software - Boston\)" <dbooth@hp.com>, <martin.hepp@uibk.ac.at>, "Giovanni Tummarello" <giovanni.tummarello@deri.org>, "Jonathan Rees" <jar@creativecommons.org>, "Bernard Vatant" <bernard.vatant@mondeca.com>, "semantic-web at W3C" <semantic-web@w3c.org>, "Earle Martin" <earle@downlode.org>
To: "Richard H. McCullough" <rhm@PioneerCA.com> 

On 7 Jul 2008, at 22:57, Richard H. McCullough wrote:

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

+500000

I keep meaning to start a thread against the mapping use of sameAs.  
It causes a lot of issues as you move to greater expressivity.

Cheers,
Bijan.
Received on Tuesday, 8 July 2008 15:02:40 GMT

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