RE: URI Declarations [Grounding]

> From: Pat Hayes
> [ . . . ]
> The SWeb seems to be ticking along without any need for a
> special grounding mechanism. In practice, people manage to
> get their referents grounded well enough in practice, without
> needing to be told how to do it.

Yes and no.  Given a particular ontology for grounding a URI, then yes, in practice people manage well enough.  But given a potentially unbounded set of ontologies for grounding that URI, any of which *might* be the right one to use, then no, people do *not* know how to make their applications select one over another.  This is a real problem.  For a given URI, people do not yet agree on what algorithm to use to select the grounding for that URI.


David Booth, Ph.D.
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