Re: Deprecating owl:sameAs

On Apr 1, 2016, at 07:28, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 1 April 2016 at 15:01, Sarven Capadisli <info@csarven.ca> wrote:
>> There is overwhelming research [1, 2, 3] and I think it is evident at this point that owl:sameAs is used inarticulately in the LOD cloud.
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>> The research that I've done makes me conclude that we need to do a massive sweep of the LOD cloud and adopt owl:sameSameButDifferent.
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>> I think the terminology is human-friendly enough that there will be minimal confusion down the line, but for the the pedants among us, we can define it along the lines of:
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>> The built-in OWL property owl:sameSameButDifferent links things to things. Such an owl:sameSameButDifferent statement indicates that two URI references actually refer to the same thing but may be different under some circumstances.
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> What about
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> owl : sometimesSameAs
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Given my background in Memento "Time Travel for the Web", I am delighted that the temporal aspect is finally brought up. Sameness frequently depends on temporal context. Hence, I think sometimesSameAs would be very valuable. In other cases, things are just always the same irrespective of time. I would propose adding sameAsItEverWas to deal with such situations.

Herbert


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>> Thoughts?
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>> [1] https://www.w3.org/2009/12/rdf-ws/papers/ws21
>> [2] http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/coreconcepts#terms_sameAs
>> [3] http://schema.org/sameAs
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>> -Sarven
>> http://csarven.ca/#i
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Received on Friday, 1 April 2016 14:57:28 UTC