Re: Best Practice for Renaming OWL Vocabulary Elements

On 5/18/11 4:14 PM, Michael F Uschold wrote:
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>     But to say it from my point of view: machines need to think in
>     ids, people need to think in names. The RDF/SPARQL "stack", such
>     as it is, has not internalized the implications of this duality,
>     and thus isn't really prepared to support both audiences properly.
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> *Very well put, Glenn! *

A Name is a Kind of ID i.e., and Identification mechanism without any 
location constraints. An Address introduces location constraint :-) 
Thus, we still ultimately have to deal with the operator functionality 
matter that drives hyperlinks i.e., de-reference (indirection) and 
address-of .

Pictorial:  HyperLink [Name | Address].

Web Users recognize and experience HyperLinks via browser driven 
interaction patterns that accentuate the 'Address' function, solely.

AWWW based Linked Data meme brings focus to the 'Name' function (with 
the 'Address' function exposed via indirection). Trouble is that the 
'Name' function is unknown via inexperience to users due to browser 
usage pattern induced autism.

The elephant in the room is this re. HyperLink based Linked Data 
structures: one aspect ('Name') benefits from identifier opacity while 
the other ('Address') benefits from hack-ability. The overall narrative 
negates this reality by conflating an issue that depends on ingenious 
exploitation of Name/Address ambiguity.

303 indirection is just another way of saying: via Links we can deliver 
indirection that enables Names to act as conduits to actual Referent 
Representation. This is good old computer science. Let's not carve out 
an island gobbledygook from the existing continent of established 
computer science re., data access by reference pattern.

This has zilch to do with RDF bar the fact that its uses URIs as 
Identifiers. To this very day, RDF says nothing about the expected 
behavior of URIs beyond the fact that they are Identifiers. Thus, this 
is simply a Linked Data matter where the goal is construction Linked 
Data Structures (using EAV/SPO Graph pictorials) via Hyperlinks.



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