- From: Vasiliy Faronov <vfaronov@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 04:31:28 +0400
- To: Peter Ansell <ansell.peter@gmail.com>
- Cc: Ian Davis <lists@iandavis.com>, Leigh Dodds <leigh.dodds@talis.com>, Linking Open Data <public-lod@w3.org>
Hi Peter, Thanks for your perspective--this problem is something I haven't considered before. But let me bring up a question. Suppose we have the resource (URI) X, which is the original resource that the annotations are all about. Someone comes around and publishes an annotation about X, using a newly minted URI Y (owl:sameAs X). Y conforms perfectly to the Linked Data model: you can dereference Y and get the annotation for X, then follow the owl:sameAs link and get the "authoritative" description of X. But the question is: where else in the Linked Data graph would we find references to Y? Since everyone wishing to annotate X mints their own URIs, we end up with a number of equivalent URIs that all point to X, but are themselves not pointed to. In other words: using URI Y in a description would constitue an annotation, and thus, according to your model, warrant minting a new URI Z. So, even though Y can be linked to, nobody actually ends up doing this. Maybe I'm missing some other uses for Y? -- Vasiliy Faronov
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