- From: Peter Ansell <ansell.peter@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 09:20:28 +1000
- To: "Jim Hendler" <hendler@cs.rpi.edu>
- Cc: "Semantic Web Interest Group" <semantic-web@w3.org>
2008/5/16 Jim Hendler <hendler@cs.rpi.edu>: > > (note reduced cc-list, wish everyone would do that) > > Fwiw, seems to me what we need is rdfs:sameas - with owl: sameas being a > special, more restricted, case - like rdf vs owl class defs I agree. There is a big difference between being able to merge RDF graphs and merge OWL "Things". I use owl:sameAs to do the former when the properties are all going to be relevant to both, but the two URI's still don't necessarily match a given whole-world OWL structure. rdfs:seeAlso has never been a big attraction to me due to its lack of actually saying anything about what you are going to get, possibly due to its colloquial use with FOAF and sending you off to a random foaf file for more information about an, as yet unnamed, entity. Given that you are never sure how someone is going to utilise your OWL structures in future you cannot be held accountable for every statement you make retrospectively, particularly if the dependent vocabularies (or the assumptions of the person utilising the vocabulary) are the cause of the breakage. > Sent from my iPhone (Cool!) Peter
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