- From: Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 22:51:40 -0400
- To: Chris Bizer <chris@bizer.de>
- Cc: <www-tag@w3.org>, <semantic-web@w3.org>, "Linking Open Data" <linking-open-data@simile.mit.edu>
On Jul 11, 2007, at 8:44 AM, Chris Bizer wrote: > Question 1: According to the terminology of the Architecture of the > WWW > document [4] are all these URIs aliases for the same non-information > resource (our current view) or are they referring to different > resources? > > Alan: > This is a question of what the publishers of those URI's say they > mean to > denote by those URIs, or alternatively, what a community of users > agrees these > URIs shall denote. > > This nicely corresponds to Dan's answer to question 3 :-) Hardly. Dan claims that the correctness of an assertion saying they are the same depends on Tim saying so. I say that this has something to do with truth. > Question 3: Is it correct to use owl:sameAs [6] to state that > http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/card#i and > http://dbpedia.org/resource/Tim_Berners-Lee refer to the same thing > as it is done in Tim's profile? > > Dan: >> It's correct because Tim says it's correct, and he owns that name. > > 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. It is now up > to the information consumer to decide if he likes to believe this > statement or not. That is a different interpretation than what was offered by Dan. He did not say that the correctness was a matter of Tim's belief. He said it is correct because Tim says so. That's a pretty big difference. I consider your statement of the answer to be more realistic. -Alan
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