- From: Bijan Parsia <bparsia@cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:07:46 +0000
- To: samwald@gmx.at
- Cc: public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org
On 24 Mar 2009, at 12:43, samwald@gmx.at wrote: >> 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. Sorry, I mean a well defined corpus, i.e., a specific set of ontologies. To replicate your actual corpus, I would need the use-case and the query in question, though I'd rather have the results directly as well. Cheers, Bijan.
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