Re: Web Payments Schema & RDF

On 1 October 2014 18:34, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com> wrote:

> On 10/1/14 10:13 AM, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
>
>>
>> I think perhaps it makes sense to roll a small vocab for my own needs
>> right now, which works with mainstream tooling and has correct definitions,
>> and then align with with work (either through a refactor or an owl :
>> sameAs) when the machine readable side is up to date.
>>
>
> +1
>
> Do that, all the time. It's a zillion times more productive.
>

You've convinced me.  Even tho it's going to be painful, I think it's time
to embrace this kind of decentralization.


>
> Reconcile with shared ontologies after you are done, or following key
> milestones. Otherwise, you will never be done.
>
> Starting with shared ontologies (at all cost) is just another one of those
> warped Semantic Web & RDF memes, that are ultimately contradictory and
> indefensible.
>
> What matters the most are the following:
>
> Definition Mode:
> 1. how you name or identify entities -- HTTP URIs
> 2. how you describe the nature of entities (i.e., classes or categories)
> 3. how you describe the nature of relationship types (i.e., domains and
> ranges).
>
> Entity Relationship Description Mode:
> 1. actual entity descriptions represented using different kinds of entity
> relationship types
> 2. where you publish your entity relationship based entity descriptions
> --- today you have Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft One Drive etc..
>
> Then reconcile with shared ontologies at a time when you've acquired so
> much knowledge and experience from the practical development processes
> (outlined above) that the entire endeavor simply adds mutual value.
> Remember, not all shared ontologies are actually useful, in short, there's
> still a minority of useful (in a practical sense)  shared ontologies out in
> the wild :)
>
> Nanotation is your friend [1] .
>
>
> [1] http://bit.ly/blog-post-about-nanotation -- Nanotation (Twitter,
> Facebook, G+, Mailing List posts etc.. are now data spaces for creating and
> sharing your world-view, in 5-Star Linked Data form, whimsically)
>
>
> --
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>
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