- From: Peter Ansell <ansell.peter@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 10:48:35 +1000
- To: "Richard Cyganiak" <richard@cyganiak.de>
- Cc: "Bijan Parsia" <bparsia@cs.man.ac.uk>, "Dan Brickley" <danbri@danbri.org>, "semantic-web at W3C" <semantic-web@w3c.org>, public-lod@w3.org
2008/7/9 Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de>: > On 9 Jul 2008, at 00:11, Bijan Parsia wrote: > [big snip] >> >> Complaining that the Big Nasty People Who Know What They're Talking About >> are raining on your sameAs parade isn't constructive. > > Ah Bijan. How about *you* grow up, flameboy? > > You keep asserting that There Are Technical Problems With Using sameAs. It > would help your argument if you told us what those technical problems > actually *are*. I heard you say that using owl:sameAs could bite us in the > butt. Could you be more specific? > > Many people in this forum, including me, do not have a background in formal > logics. Without that background, it is hard to distinguish proper uses of > owl:sameAs from improper uses of owl:sameAs. Please give us some guidance on > that rather than wasting your intellect on fanning the flames. > > A side note: The reason why I advocate the use of owl:sameAs is not that > it's the *right* solution. But it's *the only solution that was available*. > The alternative would have been to argue for a year or two instead of > linking up our datasets. Not compelling. That being said, I'm very > interested in hearing your take on when I should use owl:sameAs and when > not. > > Richard > For the record, I am not trying to flame anyone, just trying to tease out usable alternatives, and the cases where we shouldn't use owl:sameAs in order to avoid conflicting with people who want to use OWL reasoners. I, and others, need a predicate, or set of predicates, that can be utilised in queries for accessing and reconciling data across the distributed semantic web database, where no one has compiled a self-contained OWL ontology for my particular purpose, or needs to if they are able to accept that non-universal queries are a valid mechanism for new knowledge creation. Sorry if it doesn't seem like that is going well so far! Peter
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