- From: Vasiliy Faronov <vfaronov@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 14:36:28 +0400
- To: Leigh Dodds <leigh.dodds@talis.com>
- Cc: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>, public-lod <public-lod@w3.org>
Leigh Dodds wrote: > It's occurred to me before that a schema or ontology, when used in > conjunction with a reasoner is (if you squint) a form of data > compression: we can encode less as raw assertions, and "unpack" the > data at the receiving end by applying the schema and a reasoner. To an extent, yes. But since the LD web is not a closed world, there's always the possibility that someone will add their own data to ours and produce entirely new, non-obvious and useful inferences that we could not think of. > Along these lines, Jeni Tennison published some thoughts on included > "Derived Data" in a recent blog post: > > http://www.jenitennison.com/blog/node/139 > > What do people think of that advice w.r.t to this pattern? Personally I think Jeni wrote a good practical overview of what we're discussing here, including things I completely forgot, like materialization of inverse relations. -- Vasiliy Faronov
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