Re: owl:sameAs - Harmful to provenance?

On 4/9/13 1:25 PM, Michel Dumontier wrote:
> And the same can be said for teaching people how to construct *useful* 
> ontologies (in OWL or any other language for that matter). If the 
> principles are simple and coherent, then the execution will be 
> straightforward and effective.

Yes! No problem with that :-)

Kingsley
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> m.
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> On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Kingsley Idehen 
> <kidehen@openlinksw.com <mailto:kidehen@openlinksw.com>> wrote:
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>     On 4/9/13 12:40 PM, Phillip Lord wrote:
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>         Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com
>         <mailto:kidehen@openlinksw.com>> writes:
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>             On 4/9/13 11:31 AM, Phillip Lord wrote:
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>                 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.
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>             So you are questioning its unique selling points, I assume?
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>         No. I don't care. I just care whether it's useful. Who cares
>         whether
>         it's uniquely useful.
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>             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?
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>         It's a data representation technology. Lots of things do this.
>         "Totally
>         platform independent". I don't know what "platform" means
>         these days.
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>             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.
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>         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.
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>         Phil
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>     Phil,
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>     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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>
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> Michel Dumontier
> Associate Professor of Bioinformatics, Carleton University
> Chair, W3C Semantic Web for Health Care and the Life Sciences Interest 
> Group
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