- From: Richard H. McCullough <rhm@PioneerCA.com>
- Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 16:59:47 -0700
- To: "Peter Ansell" <ansell.peter@gmail.com>
- Cc: "semantic-web at W3C" <semantic-web@w3c.org>
Don't make the mistake of saying you don't know the context. If you don't know the context, you quite literally don't know what you're talking about. Dick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Ansell" <ansell.peter@gmail.com> To: "Richard H. McCullough" <rhm@pioneerca.com> Cc: "semantic-web at W3C" <semantic-web@w3c.org> Sent: Monday, July 07, 2008 4:29 PM Subject: Re: How do you deprecate URIs? Re: OWL-DL and linked data > 2008/7/8 Richard H. McCullough <rhm@pioneerca.com>: >> >> I haven't been following the "deprecate URIs" thread, so forgive me if >> I'm >> being repetitious. >> 1. everything is contextual. But that's no excuse for being sloppy with >> meanings. > > The issue with published ontologies is that you don't know what the > context is going to be when someone uses any given term. You can > attempt to restrict it but that doesn't promote reuse. > >> 2. ambiguity is not inevitable -- it is avoided by clearly identifying >> context. > > If you don't know the context a priori, and you aren't attempting to > recreate the entire world in your monolithic ontology this isn't a > useful suggestion. > >> 2. OWL:SameAs (like mKR:is) means identical -- two names (aliases) which >> mean the same thing. Let's not corrupt the meaning of this term. > > I think most of the discussion is about how you describe to someone > how to decide if two names "mean the same thing". It doesn't seem at > all obvious what they should be told past the equivalent data > structures method, which isn't useful for the situation here > >> 3. there are other terms which can be used to express varying degrees of >> similarity. > > What are they, and what software supports them? That is in effect the > 64 thousand dollar question here! > > Cheers, > > Peter > > Dick McCullough http://mKRmKE.org/ Ayn Rand do speak od mKR done; knowledge := man do identify od existent done; knowledge haspart proposition list; mKE do enhance od "Real Intelligence" done;
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