- From: <samwald@gmx.at>
- Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:43:25 +0100
- To: Bijan Parsia <bparsia@cs.man.ac.uk>, public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org
> On 24 Mar 2009, at 12:20, samwald@gmx.at wrote: > > > > >> Can any one name a real world example of where confusion between an > >> entity and its record was issue? > > > > I would say that 80% of the RDF/OWL ontologies lingering somewhere > > on the web are examples. > > Such a violation of Sturgeon's Law[1] would be cause for much rejoicing! Yes, I was actually thinking about 90% first, but then the OBO Foundry ontologies are becoming more widespread (and do not have this issue), and DBpedia shows some awareness of these issues, too... > I'd be interested in doing a survey on this to determine how > widespread the problem really is. Is there a reasonable corpus that > approximates your experience? That was my experience when using the entire web as a corpus, i.e., searching for existing ontologies for a certain use-case via Swoogle, Sindice etc. -- Matthias -- Psssst! Schon vom neuen GMX MultiMessenger gehört? Der kann`s mit allen: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/multimessenger01
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