- From: Bijan Parsia <bparsia@cs.manchester.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 08:31:20 +0000
- To: John Madden <john.madden@duke.edu>
- Cc: W3C HCLSIG hcls <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>
On 26 Mar 2009, at 22:02, John Madden wrote: > 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. Of course, there are always at least three options: 1) Overload existing term 2) Introduce a user defined new term 3) Introduce a new built-in term Since we're in the land of 2 and 3, some key questions are: a) How do we define the term? (Natural language, rdf or owl axioms, operationally) b) What is the definition (in particular, how tightly do we define it; what part of the infrastructure should be sensitive to which parts of the definition) I think signaling intent, at least the intent to say something more specific than seeAlso, is good. But I also think we can do better on the definition. Cheers, Bijan.
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