Re: owl:sameAs - Harmful to provenance?

On 4/9/13 12:40 PM, Phillip Lord wrote:
> Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com> writes:
>
>> On 4/9/13 11:31 AM, Phillip Lord wrote:
>>> Compare all you like. RDF is just another technology; it's not going to
>>> let me do anything that I cannot do in another way.
>> So you are questioning its unique selling points, I assume?
> No. I don't care. I just care whether it's useful. Who cares whether
> it's uniquely useful.
>
>> If so, can you point us to a technology that addresses the issue of
>> grounding logic in data
>> -- in a manner that's totally platform independent?
> It's a data representation technology. Lots of things do this. "Totally
> platform independent". I don't know what "platform" means these days.
>
>> We want to be able to leverage logic in the process of actual data
>> representation, access, integration, and management. I know of no technology
>> that addresses the problem like RDF i.e., in a platform agnostic manner that
>> echoes the essence of the Web itself.
> RDF is nice. It's useful. It will remain useful, at least if people are
> allowed to use it without being told that they are doing it all wrong.
>
> I am not attacking RDF; I am attacking the notion that everything has to
> be perfect, to work in every circumstance, for it to be useful at all.
>
> Phil
>
>
>
Phil,

I do agree totally with the notion of not teaching folks RDF by always 
inferring that they are doing it wrong :-)

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