- From: Toby Inkster <tai@g5n.co.uk>
- Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2010 08:27:34 +0000
- To: Percy Enrique Rivera Salas <privera.salas@gmail.com>
- Cc: public-lod@w3.org, Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>
On Fri, 3 Dec 2010 18:15:08 -0200 Percy Enrique Rivera Salas <privera.salas@gmail.com> wrote: > I would like to know, which are the specific reason(s), > for reuse terms from well-known vocabularies in the process of Publish > Linked Data on the Web? Consider this question: I would like to know, which are the specific reason(s) for reusing well-known words in the process of publishing English text on the Web? Answer: When you're writing something in English, you should avoid inventing new words unless you're fairly sure that a word for the concept you're trying to describe does not exist. This is because if you invent a new word, you need to describe what it means for other people to be able to understand you. And even when you do that, you've increased the cognitive load for your readers. URIs are the vocabulary of linked data, just like words are the vocabulary of the English language. For analogous reasons, you should avoid minting new URIs when an existing URI will do. If you mint a new URI that means the same as an existing one, then not only do you have to go to the effort of documenting its meaning, but consumers have to perform extra work (such as subproperty/subclass inferencing) to understand it. -- Toby A Inkster <mailto:mail@tobyinkster.co.uk> <http://tobyinkster.co.uk>
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