- From: <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:55:54 -0400
- To: "Chris Bizer" <chris@bizer.de>
- Cc: "Linking Open Data" <linking-open-data@simile.mit.edu>, semantic-web@w3.org, www-tag@w3.org
Chris Bizer writes: > I like this answer as it clearly points at the Semantic Web being a > social system where information providers express their opinions which > can be right or wrong. Tim is stating that he thinks that both URIs > refer to the same non-information resource. I think two things are being mixed here. Yes, it's possible in principle to question the veracity of any given RDF statement, and one can debate the degree to which the semantic Web itself will come to be viewed through the prism of social agreement as to which statements are correct. I believe, however, that what we're discussing here is not just any old RDF statment. If I had made a statement that "the sky is green", Tim might reasonable express the opinion "no, I think Noah has set out a false statement." The case we're discussing is different, I think. Tim is, I believe, responsible for the association between the URI http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/card#i and a resource, or we may assume for the sake of argument that W3C has delegated that responsibility to him. Tim states that the resource so designated is himself, then he is not offering an opinion: he is stating a fact about the resource that he has chosen to identify with this URI. The dbpedia folks may similarly establish authoritative associations between the URIs they control and resources. > It is now up to the information consumer to decide if he likes > to believe this statement or not. For the reasons just stated, no not in this case. At least not in my opinion. Noah -------------------------------------- Noah Mendelsohn IBM Corporation One Rogers Street Cambridge, MA 02142 1-617-693-4036 --------------------------------------
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