- From: Oliver Ruebenacker <curoli@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 06:32:23 -0400
- To: Michel_Dumontier <Michel_Dumontier@carleton.ca>
- Cc: David Booth <david@dbooth.org>, W3C HCLSIG hcls <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>
Hello All,
2009/3/23 Michel_Dumontier <Michel_Dumontier@carleton.ca>:
> I do not think this would be a wise "simplification". This is only a
> simplification from one perspective: because it avoids having to mint
> and maintain pairs of URIs instead of a single URI. But the downstream
> cost is that it creates an ambiguity (or "URI collision")
> http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/#URI-collision
> that may cause trouble and be difficult to untangle later as the data is
> used in more and more ways. For example, if any of the same predicates
> need to be used on both the record and the molecular entity, they will
> become hopelessly confused. Also, if disjointness assertions are
> included then this overloading may cause logical contraditions.
Can any one name a real world example of where confusion between an
entity and its record was issue?
Take care
Oliver
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Oliver Ruebenacker, Computational Cell Biologist
BioPAX Integration at Virtual Cell (http://vcell.org/biopax)
Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling
http://www.oliver.curiousworld.org
Received on Tuesday, 24 March 2009 10:32:59 UTC