Re: Merging Databases

Hugh Glaser wrote:
> Excellent Alan, thank you for pointing this out, both as a general point and the specific case.
> I had puzzled over the equivalences, since they seemed implausible (just given the number), but not worked out why (I guess the lack of the backlink did not help).
> However they, along with good stuff, came from a source I chose to trust, and so I went with it.
> The caveat is useful in general - I know of other sameas that I might consider erroneous/dubious but are widely accepted.
> Another example would be the sameas between the opencyc URIs and the dbpedia ones, although things of different type, which was a topic of discussion on this list a while ago.
>   
Hugh,

Yes, the links between OpenCyc and DBpedia are an issue.

Larry/David: did you receive the mail (private) that I sent a while back 
about this?

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Received on Monday, 20 July 2009 20:32:26 UTC