- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
- Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:36:49 +0100
- To: Frederick Giasson <fred@fgiasson.com>
- CC: David Baxter <retxabd@gmail.com>, "public-lod@w3.org" <public-lod@w3.org>
On 23/2/09 20:32, Frederick Giasson wrote: > Hi Dan, > >> Certainly a useful concept to have name(s) for, ... but I think not >> quite what is needed to link these specific datasets. The W3C wordnet >> data is a collection of descriptions of linguistic concepts. The >> OpenCyc things they're linked to are not linguistic entities, but the >> real world things the words are associated with. So they're not >> near-identical similar objects, but things that are generally from >> disjoint classes. Paris the place, vs "Paris" the word (or the set of >> synonymous words _for_ Paris...). I think this is a distinction worth >> keeping reasonably explicit. > > Sorry, I probably haven't been clear with my email (at least, Mike told > me I was not ;)) > > I *was not suggesting* to use it, but probably more a subpropertyof > seeAlso (even though, this is probably not the right one as a super > property). Ah, I probably read too fast, sorry! Yes, declaring something a specialization of rdfs:seeAlso can be a nice hint. But if you take http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData very seriously, pretty much all URIs are fair game for dereferencing. In which case it becomes a bit unclear when it is worth throwing rdfs:seeAlso into the mix... cheers, Dan
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