- From: Hugh Glaser <hg@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:48:12 +0100
- To: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- CC: Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>, Amrapali Zaveri <amrapali.zaveri@gmail.com>, "public-lod@w3.org" <public-lod@w3.org>, Anja Jentzsch <anja@anjeve.de>, Susie Stephens <susie.stephens@gmail.com>, Larry Lefkowitz <larry@cyc.com>, David Baxter <retxabd@gmail.com>
On 20/07/2009 21:31, "Kingsley Idehen" <kidehen@openlinksw.com> wrote: > 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. Although not necessarily "wrong", in the sense that they do give consumers something - although sameAs is not really the right thing (as Alan would say). > > Larry/David: did you receive the mail (private) that I sent a while back > about this? > > [SNIP] > > -- > > > Regards, > > Kingsley Idehen Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen > President & CEO > OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com > > > > >
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