- From: Peter Ansell <ansell.peter@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 07:54:46 +1000
- To: "John F. Madden" <john.madden@duke.edu>
- Cc: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>, Michel_Dumontier <Michel_Dumontier@carleton.ca>, W3C HCLSIG hcls <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>
2009/3/27 John F. Madden <john.madden@duke.edu>: > Pat et al., > > It sounds like people sometimes have an irresistible itch to say that "A is > similar to B", but this statement as such has very little semantic content. > > Perhaps it's not really intended as a statement that has a truth value, but > rather as a record of somebody's feelings. > > The semantic web can certainly serve as a repository for recording one's > feelings, and this might even be useful. (If I were and astrophysicist, for > example, I might be quite interested in Stephen Hawking's intuitions about > some problem I was working on.) > > So what would you say about an rdf:property called, say, > "http://www.example.com/intuit#similarTo" that could be used simply to post > a record that somebody intuited a "similarity" between two things? > > It would have little utility for inferencing, unless one were to write a > custom application (i.e. not OWL) to do so. But it might have utility as a > semantic web "bookmark" for relationships that could be interesting > candidates for future formalization. It would be infinitely better than seeAlso where you have no idea what the intent is, other than it isn't owl:sameAs or anything else in between. Cheers, Peter
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