- From: Aldo Gangemi <aldo.gangemi@cnr.it>
- Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 17:47:28 +0200
- To: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
- Cc: Aldo Gangemi <aldo.gangemi@cnr.it>, Bijan Parsia <bparsia@cs.man.ac.uk>, semantic-web at W3C <semantic-web@w3c.org>
Fully agreed. That was indeed my main complain when summarizing the various positions after raising the issue. Leave owl:sameAs doing its formal identity work, and create something else for similarity relations. Aldo Il giorno 08/lug/08, alle ore 17:25, Dan Brickley ha scritto: > > Bijan Parsia wrote: >> On 7 Jul 2008, at 22:57, Richard H. McCullough wrote: >>> 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. >>> 2. ambiguity is not inevitable -- it is avoided by clearly >>> identifying context. >>> 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. >> +500000 >> I keep meaning to start a thread against the mapping use of sameAs. >> It causes a lot of issues as you move to greater expressivity. > > There was recently an extensive thread about it, http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/semantic-web/2008May/0078.html > "Managing co-reference". > > I keep meaning to engage more with that, because I'm also worried > about seeing the vividly crisp meaning of owl:sameAs weakened to > mean "kinda sorta mostly same-ish thing, for most purposes". The > idea floating for an 'rdf:sameAs' also filled me with dread. > > Call me old fashioned, but owl:sameAs means what it means as defined > in the OWL specs. If people are going to miss-use it, I'd rather > they did so by admitting they're publishing possibly-false-claims, > than by trying to stretch and bend it to have some new "as used in > real life" vaguer meaning. > > cheers, > > Dan > > -- > http://danbri.org/ > _________________________________ Aldo Gangemi Senior Researcher Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technology National Research Council (ISTC-CNR) Via Nomentana 56, 00161, Roma, Italy Tel: +390644161535 Fax: +390644161513 aldo.gangemi@cnr.it http://www.loa-cnr.it/gangemi.html icq# 108370336 skype aldogangemi
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