- From: Bijan Parsia <bparsia@cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:13:41 +0000
- To: W3C HCLSIG hcls <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>
On 24 Mar 2009, at 13:01, Kingsley Idehen wrote: [snip] > Bijan, > > Is "Identity" important or not? That's the question here. But it's not a well-defined question. But let me make a well-defined version (not meant to capture your question, but just to be clear example). In XSD, 1.0^^xsd:double is not identical (is numerically distinct from) 1.0^^xsd:decimal. For counting successors, identity is critical. For numeric equality (for a given equality theory) and arithmetic (under that theory) it isn't. > Is granularity important or not? A variation of the statement above. I don't see how that is a variation of any variant of the question above. > 303s are just about "Identity" at the datum level within the > context of the Web when using a particular form of HTTP based URI > scheme (the Slash based URI). I don't understand that at all. > Should we be able to reference a datum and de-reference a > representation of its description via the Web? Sometimes? Maybe? I don't know? I'm close to not caring? I don't see the big impact on engineering, frankly, at a substantial level. It would depend on the context, the notion of datum, etc. etc. Again, I prefer operational descriptions here. I'm being perfectly honest and as charitable as I know how when I say I have no idea what the "datum level within the context of the Web" *is*. Or, actually, why I should care about it when building an ontology. And I am not naive in these matters. Cheers, Bijan.
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