Re: Socialnetworks of a person or organization

On 4/11/14 7:50 PM, Aaron Bradley wrote:
> I think Thad typifies the difference between the "regular web" and the 
> "social web" (and it is indeed an important one for marketers) well 
> when he says:
>
> > The difference between the 2 is that one has the context of "allows a 
> communication pathway to an Organization or Person"...versus those 
> that are not constructed to really have communication to a 
> Organization or Person".
>
> Or - as I might have mentioned before - the "regular web" references 
> resources /about/ an entity, whereas the social web references 
> resources that emanate /from/ an entity.

It is simpler, really.
The Web provides foundation for many kinds of network abstractions 
[1][2][3]. Each of this abstractions is fundamentally driven by 
denotation relations.

>  In regard to the referenced entity the former is passive, the latter 
> active (or at least  potentially so) - it's the difference between a 
> third and person narrative.
>
> Is the Wikipedia page /about /Monsanto in the same category as the 
> Twitter account run /by/ Monsanto?  I sure don't think so, and I think 
> that its useful for data consumers to be able to distinguish between 
> these two classes of identifiers when returning information about the 
> entity in question.

It just about which abstraction you are working with. We only get into 
trouble when we mangle the abstractions :-)


BTW -- Dan's example provide good foundation for understanding the 
matters. It provides a bridge solution that ultimately aids in 
understanding important lines of demarcation. For instance, the role of 
a *pronoun* in natural language is subtle but powerful.

Sticking with Dan's example, here are some additional relation name 
suggestions, as alternatives to anything with "sameAs" in it:

1. describedBy -- your Twitter Home page Identifies you since its 
comprised of a Description of you
2. profileAt -- your Twitter home page is a document at a location 
denoted by its HTTP(S) URL
3. hasProfileDoc -- variant of the above.

The above are in addition to:

1. identifiedBy
2. referencedBy
3. subjectOf .

All of these make Dan's example a little clearer, as alternatives to 
"sameAs" .

Again, there is a subtlety in Dan's example that really needs to be 
picked up, it solves a major headache re. bridging the world of:

1. structured data
2. linked data
3. semantically enhanced linked data.

Links:

[1] http://bit.ly/1cjYwqN -- Internet abstraction (driven by DNS names 
for computers (actually their NICS) re. entity denotation and scope)
[2] http://bit.ly/1e0pwdI -- Linked Document (or World Wide Web 1.0) 
abstraction (driven by HTTP names for Web Documents)
[3] http://bit.ly/INv6ag -- Linked Data (or Data Web) abstraction driven 
by HTTP names for anything
[4] http://bit.ly/1lHD31h -- Semantic Web abstraction (driven by names 
for anything combined with machine comprehensible relation semantics)
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Kingsley Idehen 
> <kidehen@openlinksw.com <mailto:kidehen@openlinksw.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 4/11/14 4:06 PM, Jarno van Driel wrote:
>>     Being a non-illuminati I think simple. The description of sameAs
>>     mentions about the item's identity. Now for me my 'identity'
>>     isn't defined by a Youtube channel where I share random stuff I
>>     like on the web. I am no @VideoGallery, I'm me, a real life
>>     person and not a collection of videos. 
>     Dan's example in HTML+Microdata (which by notation choice
>     **inadvertently** blurs visibility of the relation semantics in
>     play) :
>
>     <div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"
>     <http://schema.org/Person>>
>     <span itemprop="name">Stephen Fry</span>
>         (<a itemprop="url" href="http://www.stephenfry.com/"
>     <http://www.stephenfry.com/>>stephenfry.com
>     <http://stephenfry.com></a>,
>          <a itemprop="sameAs" href="http://twitter.com/stephenfry"
>     <http://twitter.com/stephenfry>>twitter</a>,
>     <a itemprop="sameAs"
>     href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Fry"
>     <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Fry>>wikipedia</a>)
>     </div>
>
>
>     Turtle  translation:
>
>     <> <http://www.w3.org/ns/md#item> <http://www.w3.org/ns/md#item> [
>     <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type>
>     <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type>
>     <http://schema.org/Person> <http://schema.org/Person>;
>     <http://schema.org/name> <http://schema.org/name> "Stephen Fry";
>     <http://schema.org/sameAs> <http://schema.org/sameAs>
>     <http://twitter.com/stephenfry> <http://twitter.com/stephenfry>,
>     <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Fry>
>     <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Fry>;
>     <http://schema.org/url> <http://schema.org/url>
>     <http://www.stephenfry.com/> <http://www.stephenfry.com/>
>          ];
>     <http://www.w3.org/ns/rdfa#usesVocabulary>
>     <http://www.w3.org/ns/rdfa#usesVocabulary> <http://schema.org/>
>     <http://schema.org/> .
>
>
>     What does Dan's example demonstrate?
>
>     The function of a **pronoun** in a sentence or statement.
>     Basically, the example makes the following claim, using terms from
>     <http://schema.org/> <http://schema.org/> (a Vocabulary):
>
>     Someone or something has determined the existence of an entity
>     that has the following discernible attributes:
>     Name: "Stephen Fry"
>     Type: Person
>     referencedBy: <http://twitter.com/stephenfry>
>     <http://twitter.com/stephenfry>, <http://twitter.com/stephenfry>
>     <http://twitter.com/stephenfry>, <http://www.stephenfry.com/>
>     <http://www.stephenfry.com/> .
>
>     Personally, I wouldn't denote a relationship predicate/property
>     for this relation, in this manner, due to the **equivalence**
>     intuition. Alternatives inclued:
>
>     1. referencedBy
>     2. subjectOf
>     3. identifiedBy -- this is my personal favorite .
>
>
>     -- 
>
>     Regards,
>
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