- From: Tom Scott <tascott@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:50:27 +0000
- To: Simon Reinhardt <simon.reinhardt@koeln.de>
- Cc: Richard Light <richard@light.demon.co.uk>, "public-lod@w3.org" <public-lod@w3.org>
On 14 Nov 2009, at 12:31, Simon Reinhardt <simon.reinhardt@koeln.de> wrote: > 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. I could see using this to distinguish different species with the same common name (which happens a lot between countries) as useful. Especially because most people will know a species by it's local common name rather than it's binomial name. > 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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