- From: Pierre-Antoine Champin <swlists-040405@champin.net>
- Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:14:08 +0100
- To: Ian Davis <lists@iandavis.com>
- CC: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>, martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org, Michael Hausenblas <michael.hausenblas@deri.org>, mark.birbeck@webbackplane.com, david@dbooth.org, Linked Data community <public-lod@w3.org>
Le 23/06/2009 23:06, Ian Davis a écrit : > On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org > <mailto:danbri@danbri.org>> wrote: > > On 23/6/09 11:01, Martin Hepp (UniBW) wrote: > > And Michael, please be frank - there is a tendency in the LOD > community > which goes along the lines of "OWL and DL-minded SW research has > proven > obsolete anyway, so we LOD guys and girls just pick and use the > bits and > pieces we like and don't care about the rest". > > > What made the Web so powerful is that its Architecture is extremely > well-thought underneath the first cover of simplicity. > > > One of those principles is partial understanding - the ability to do > something useful without understanding everything... > > > Absolutely. > > We should also remember that multiple ontologies may exist that cover a > given term. I think this is often forgotten. There is no requirement > that the ontology statements retrieved by dereferencing the URI should > be used - they are only provided as _an_ additional source of > information. There may be many other ways to discover relevant > ontologies and a large class of those will be for private use. If I > choose to assert that dc:date and rev:createdOn are > owl:equivalentProperties then that is my prerogative. The beauty of the > semweb is that I can publish my assertions and potentially other people > could choose to adopt them. Exactly. So If I agree with you on this equivalence, and want to state that I *endorse* all inferences that can be made from my data using your axiom, I think owl:import'ing is, IMO, the thing to do. Of course, I could still use rdfs:seeAlso, but it is not meant to imply this kind of formal endorsement. pa
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