- From: Phil Tetlow <philip.tetlow@uk.ibm.com>
- Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 10:13:08 -0500
- To: "Bernard Vatant" <bernard.vatant@mondeca.com>
- Cc: <public-swbp-wg@w3.org>, <tom.croucher@sunderland.ac.uk>
Bernard,
Please forgive me. I think I should have also added 'overlay' URI schemes
below.
Regards
Phil Tetlow
Senior Consultant
IBM Business Consulting Services
Mobile. (+44) 7740 923328
----- Forwarded by Phil Tetlow/UK/IBM on 22/01/2005 10:06 -----
Phil
Tetlow/UK/IBM
To
22/01/2005 09:19 "Bernard Vatant"
<bernard.vatant@mondeca.com>
cc
<public-swbp-wg@w3.org>,
<tom.croucher@sunderland.ac.uk>
Subject
RE: [SE] Composite Identification
Schemes on the Semantic Web
(Document link: Phil Tetlow)
Bernard
Thanks for the prompt and interesting reply. Obviously there are now a few
of us thinking along the same lines and it is both refreshing and
stimulating to hear your valuable input.
One minor point - The URI system is the foundation on which the Web is
built. So (to use your words) I think that the time may well be 'right' to
consider the validity of identification schemes that 'augment','complement'
or 'extend' this system, rather than 'shift from it'. A subtle change in
words - I hope you do not mind?
Kind regards
Phil Tetlow
Senior Consultant
IBM Business Consulting Services
Mobile. (+44) 7740 923328
"Bernard Vatant"
<bernard.vatant@m
ondeca.com> To
Phil Tetlow/UK/IBM@IBMGB
22/01/2005 07:06 cc
<public-swbp-wg@w3.org>,
<tom.croucher@sunderland.ac.uk>
Subject
RE: [SE] Composite Identification
Schemes on the Semantic Web
Phil, and all
I'm well aware of the SE Task Force, and in fact discovered the paper of
Tom listed at
http://dl-web.man.ac.uk/~panz/swse/.
Actually I was making my mind about putting this identity/identification
issue on SWBP WG
table, but you beat me at it ...
As written in my private mail to Tom Croucher and al, and since you were
kind enough to
push it in the public space :)) some thoughts about how this question could
be tackled in
the SW Activity framework, and beyond. I am not completely sure if this is
only a Semantic
Web issue, although it is critical to the Semantic Web deployment. SW
Activity seems to be
interested mostly (only?) by identification of resources by URIs, although
Tom's paper
among others clearly shows the limits of such an approach.
The identity issue is certainly in the scope of SE Task Force. Of course
identification of
resources/subjects/topics across applications is an integration issue in a
Semantic
Software environment, but this is not IMO the whole of identity issue. It's
also in the
scope of VM, for example, since identifying identical concepts across
distributed
vocabularies is also a core issue. As I pointed out a few days ago, there
are today about
400 different URIs in the Swoogle Ontology Dictionary somehow defining
"Person", there is
no reason why this figure will not keep up growing, a situation I tend to
call the
"Semantic Mess" [1].
So far I was mainly brainstorming about it in my blog, trying to figure the
various tracks
available. We've been working for quite a while in the OASIS Published
Subjects TC, since
2001, to figure out the best recommendations for Subject Indicators and
Subject
Identifiers, and basically we have piled up open issues, and there again,
it's all about
URI-based identity. Heuristic approaches based on various kind of "Subject
Identity
Measure" [2] or what Tom calls "Composite Identification" are indeed to
consider, but they
somehow question the URI-based mechanism as the final solution for
identification.
In other words, I think time is ripe to shift from the notion of absolute
identity based
on static identifiers (names, URIs) to the notion of identification
protocols, providing
"context specific identification" [3].
[1]
http://universimmedia.blogspot.com/2005/01/how-many-person-concepts-in-semantic.html
[2]
http://universimmedia.blogspot.com/2004_08_01_universimmedia_archive.html
[3] http://osiris.sund.ac.uk/~cs0tco/eswc2005.pdf
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Bernard Vatant
Senior Consultant
Knowledge Engineering
bernard.vatant@mondeca.com
"Making Sense of Content" : http://www.mondeca.com
"Everything is a Subject" : http://universimmedia.blogspot.com
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> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Phil Tetlow [mailto:philip.tetlow@uk.ibm.com]
> Envoye : samedi 22 janvier 2005 10:44
> A : Bernard Vatant
> Cc : public-swbp-wg@w3.org; tom.croucher@sunderland.ac.uk
> Objet : [SE] Composite Identification Schemes on the Semantic Web
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> Bernard
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> I currently help coordinate the W3C's task force on the Application of
the
> Semantic Web in Software Engineering and am a friend of Tom Croucher. As
> such Tom have been kindly sharing his thoughts with me on composite
> identification schemes for the Semantic Web and has passed on your mail
> below. As such I am sure that members of the task force would be most
> interested to read the material you have listed. We also have a public
> mailing list, so if you would like to contribute to our cause, friendly
and
> constructive debate is always warmly welcomed.
>
> Kind Regards
>
> Phil Tetlow
> Senior Consultant
> IBM Business Consulting Services
> Mobile. (+44) 7740 923328
> ----- Forwarded by Phil Tetlow/UK/IBM on 22/01/2005 04:30 -----
>
> Tom Croucher
> <tom.croucher@sun
> derland.ac.uk>
To
> Phil Tetlow/UK/IBM@IBMGB
> 21/01/2005 12:21
cc
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Subject
> Fwd: Your papers about Identity on
> the Web
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> ------- Forwarded message -------
> From: "Bernard Vatant" <bernard.vatant@mondeca.com>
> To: tom.croucher@sunderland.ac.uk, j.r.c.geldart@durham.ac.uk,
> rguha@us.ibm.com
> Subject: Your papers about Identity on the Web
> Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 14:28:46 +0100
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>
> Bonjour
>
> I've read with most interest your respective papers on identity
> http://osiris.sund.ac.uk/~cs0tco/eswc2005.pdf
> http://tap.stanford.edu/CoIdent.pdf
>
> I'm trying to gather contributions to those identity issues, that I
> consider also as the
> most critical for the future of semantic technologies, and even IT at
> large. I've set for
> a few months a blog about it at http://universimmedia.blogspot.com to
> gather relevant
> papers, relexions and debates. You are of course welcome to jump in, post
> comments, or new
> topics if you feel like it (I will send you a formal invitation to do so
> in this latter
> case).
>
> I've been thinking for a while to go beyond this informal effort, and try
> to gather a
> community towards some standardisation effort in this domain, but am not
> sure what would
> be the best framework for it. In the W3C Semantic Web Activity, I'm
afraid
>
> the debate
> would be at risk to be too much focused on URI-based identity. I've also
> been
> participating in the OASIS Published Subjects group, but there again the
> focus has been on
> a very specific URL-based identification protocol ...
>
> Any thoughts welcome
>
> Best regards
>
>
>
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>
>
> Bernard Vatant
> Senior Consultant
> Knowledge Engineering
> bernard.vatant@mondeca.com
>
> "Making Sense of Content" : http://www.mondeca.com
> "Everything is a Subject" : http://universimmedia.blogspot.com
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> Tom Croucher
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