Re: blog: semantic dissonance in uniprot from John Madden on 2009-03-26 (public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org from March 2009)

From: John Madden <john.madden@duke.edu>
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:02:55 -0700
To: Peter Ansell <ansell.peter@gmail.com>
Cc: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>, Michel_Dumontier <Michel_Dumontier@carleton.ca>, W3C HCLSIG hcls <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>
Message-Id: <76623354-CDAD-411D-8D23-1666EB761DFF@duke.edu>

Hi Peter,


>
> 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.

Of course, you could create a property ex:similarTo in your own  
namespace, and then declare that

	ex:similarTo rdfs:subPropertyOf rdf:seeAlso .

Then you could just make some English language usage recommendations  
about ex:similarTo.



>
> Cheers,
>
> Peter
>

Received on Thursday, 26 March 2009 22:03:57 UTC