- From: Simon Reinhardt <simon.reinhardt@koeln.de>
- Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:31:38 +0100
- To: Richard Light <richard@light.demon.co.uk>
- CC: public-lod@w3.org
Richard Light wrote: > Hugh Glaser's sameAs.org site [1] provides a facility for finding > multiple URIs for the same concept. How about a site which does the > opposite: indicates where URIs refer to _different_ concepts? Obviously, > this is only helpful where you might be tempted to assume that the > concepts are identical, e.g. because the same word or phrase is used to > describe/identify both. > > Wikipedia's disambiguation pages are doing this job for human readers: > is there a Linked Data equivalent? I've experimented with this in my FOAF file: basically I provided descriptions of other people with the same or similar names as me (homepages etc, whatever I know about them, preferably IFPs) and then declared them to be owl:differentFrom me. In the end I removed it again because I like to keep this a bit fuzzy for privacy reasons. ;-) Other use cases... hmmm. Maybe product descriptions where you have lots of slightly different versions of a product that might get confused. I definitely think it's useful for Linked Data purposes, just like owl:sameAs, IFPs and everything that Allemand and Hendler describe as RDFS-Plus (although they don't include owl:differentFrom in that). Regards, Simon
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