Re: owl:sameAs - Is it used in a right way?

On 3/15/13 2:29 PM, Jeremy J Carroll wrote:
> I did not find this a rookie question at all.
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> This seems to get to the heart of some of the real difficult issues in Semantic Web.
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> My perspective is different from yours, and a resource description that I author is a description of the resource from my perspective; a resource description that you author is a description from your perspective.
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> If I have some detailed application that depends in some subtle way on my description, I may want to ignore your version; on the other hand, a third party might want to use both of our points of view.
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> One way of tacking this problem is to have three graphs for this case:
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> Gj, Gu, G=
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> Gj contains triples describing my point of view
> Gu contains triples describing your point of view
> G= contains the owl:sameAs triples
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> Then, in some application contexts, we use Gj, sometimes Gu, and sometimes all three.
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> Jeremy
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Kingsley

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> On Mar 15, 2013, at 11:02 AM, Umutcan ŞİMŞEK <s.umutcan@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Thanks for the quick answer : )
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>> So this issue is that subjective for contexts which allows to use owl:sameAs to link resources  if they are not semantically even a little bit related in real world?
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>> Sorry if I'm asking too basic questions. I'm still a rookie at this :D
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>> Umutcan
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>> On 15-03-2013 19:38, Kingsley Idehen wrote:
>>> On 3/15/13 1:05 PM, Umutcan ŞİMŞEK wrote:
>>>> My question is, does LODD use owl:sameAs properly? For instance, are those two resources, dbpedia:Metamizole and drugbank:DB04817 (code for Metamizole), really identical? Or am I getting the word "property" in the paper wrong?
>>> The question is always about: do those URIs denote the same thing? Put differently, do the two URIs have a common referent?
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>>> ## Turtle ##
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>>> <#i> owl:sameAs <#you>.
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>>> ## End ##
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>>> That's a relation in the form of a 3-tuple based statement that carries entailment consequences for a reasoner that understand the relation semantics. Through some "context lenses" the statement above could be accurate, in others totally inaccurate.
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>>> Conclusion, beauty lies eternally in the eyes of the beholder :-)
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