- From: David Booth <david@dbooth.org>
- Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 21:52:38 -0400
- To: Oliver Ruebenacker <curoli@gmail.com>
- CC: Jim McCusker <mccusj@rpi.edu>, Jeremy J Carroll <jjc@syapse.com>, Umutcan ŞİMŞEK <s.umutcan@gmail.com>, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>, w3c semweb HCLS <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>
Hi Oliver, On 03/17/2013 10:55 AM, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: > Hello, > > On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 12:30 PM, David Booth <david@dbooth.org> wrote: >> You are in good company in thinking that a URI always denotes the same >> resource, because that is a widespread misconception. (I call it Myth #1 in >> http://dbooth.org/2010/ambiguity/paper.html .) But it simply is not true in >> the RDF semantics. >> [...] >> That is precisely why it is helpful to keep different perspectives in >> different graphs, as Jeremy suggested. > > That's a little bit like saying, since floating-point numbers are > not perfectly precise, the 1.376 in my data may not be the same as the > 1.376 in your data, and therefore the two values should be kept in > separate spaces. I don't follow what you mean. A floating point number like 1.376 may be used as an approximation of some real number, but it is exactly the same floating point number in all RDF graphs. David
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