- From: Ian Davis <lists@iandavis.com>
- Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 21:02:34 +0100
- To: Pierre-Antoine Champin <swlists-040405@champin.net>
- CC: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>, Bernard Vatant <bernard.vatant@mondeca.com>, semantic-web@w3.org
On 14/06/2007 16:11, Pierre-Antoine Champin wrote: > Consider that I work for two different companies (in the morning and in > the afternoon). > Both have a URI for me. Company 1 would state > > comp1:champin emp:name "Champin" ; > emp:salary "1000€" . > > Company 2, on the other hand, would state > > comp2:champin emp:name "Champin" ; > emp:salary "2000€" . > > using the same standardized properties, which happen to be functional. > > It would seem legitimate to state that > > comp1:champin owl:sameAs comp2:champin . > > But that would lead to inconsistency (two different values for a > functional property). > > Both URIs denote me, but not the same "me", only the "me" I am from the > point of view of each company. You modelled it such that each person may have only a single salary, yet you found someone with two. Either the data is wrong or your model is wrong. That's all the inconsistency tells you. Ian -- work - http://www.talis.com/platform play - http://iandavis.com/blog callto:ian_davis
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