Re: I am.

> On May 19, 2017, at 8:57 AM, Stian Soiland-Reyes <soiland-reyes@manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 17 May 2017 11:24:11 +0200, Sarven Capadisli <info@csarven.ca> wrote:
>> Philosophers and Semantic Web junkies gather around.
>> 
>> Use the the RDF language to represent the following statement:
>> 
>> "I am."
>> 
> 
> (Turtle notation):
> 
>  _:I a [] .
> 
> We don't know who "I" is - that is contextual, so a bnode. 
> 
> 
> 
> I see some suggest <#I> to lock that context, I guess that would
> be OK within an email? But then we get different "I"s, 
> as <http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9842-9718> is the author of THIS email,
> that would be different from Sarven's statement, where "I" could be
> <http://csarven.ca/#i> (context *his* email)
> or some unknown "I" (context the "sentence")
> 
> 
> So "I" is something - we just don't know what, it might not be a Person.
> (perhaps just a rdfs:Resource).
> 
> Basically my attempt reduces "I am" to just "something exists”.

Exactly. TimBL’s neat idea is the closest one can get to an “I”, I suspect. But…

> Permitting OWL we can say that as:
> 
>  _:I a owl:Thing .

But that is a tautology. It’s not worth saying because it doesn’t say anything. That was my point about RDF (and OWL) assuming that named things exist. If everything you can mention exists, there isn’t much point in saying anything about existence. 

Pat

> 
> ..but that means "I" can't (easily) be a construct of the OWL language :)
> 
> 
> 
> The second part of "I am" is that "I" also said that statement. I
> guess that why we some of the other people suggesting FOAF/schema
> statements that comes down to instead saying "I wrote this".
> 
> 
> 
> Nanopublications [1] makes it easier to separate the pointless statement and
> the fact the statement is uttered by the same "I". TriG notation:
> 
> 
> @prefix this: <http://purl.org/np/RAc8Mzud0BGGchNwT2-eA1usfvh3bgRXYhGasGG9Q1Vx4> .
> @prefix sub: <http://purl.org/np/RAc8Mzud0BGGchNwT2-eA1usfvh3bgRXYhGasGG9Q1Vx4#> .
> @prefix np: <http://www.nanopub.org/nschema#> .
> @prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
> @prefix pav: <http://purl.org/pav/> .
> 
> sub:head {
>  this: np:hasAssertion sub:assertion ;
>   np:hasProvenance sub:provenance ;
>   np:hasPublicationInfo sub:pubInfo ;
>   a np:Nanopublication .
> }
> 
> sub:assertion {
>  sub:I a sub:_1 .
> }
> 
> sub:provenance {
>  sub:assertion pav:importedFrom <https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/semantic-web/2017May/0045.html> ;
>   prov:wasAttributedTo sub:I .
> }
> 
> sub:pubInfo {
>  this: pav:contributedBy <http://csarven.ca/#i> ;
>   pav:createdBy <http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9842-9718> ;
>   pav:importedFrom <https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/semantic-web/2017May/0045.html> ;
>   prov:wasAttributedTo <http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9842-9718> .
> }
> 
> Here we can distinguish between sub:assertion, the statement itself (which just
> says that sub:I is something) and this: - the nanopublication that captures the
> statement and its provenance.
> 
> We can see in sub:provenance the assertion is attributed to sub:I (so the I
> is capable of making such a statement). Also the statement was imported from
> Sarven's email message.    
> 
> This is captured in the nanopublication this: aka
> http://purl.org/np/RAc8Mzud0BGGchNwT2-eA1usfvh3bgRXYhGasGG9Q1Vx4 - which we see
> was created by *me*, and also imported from Sarven's message.
> 
> Therefore I aka <http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9842-9718> (who created this
> *serialization* of the nanopublication) claim Sarven as a contributor (not
> necessarily an author, I don't know) of the *knowledge* contained in this
> nanopublication.  
> 
> PAV's "importedFrom" here means we have preserved some of the *knowledge* of
> that email message, but put it in a different format (in this case an RDF
> nanopublication).
> 
> 
> Note that the NanoPub server had to "lock" the blank nodes to sub:I and sub:_1
> to make the Trusted URI [2] -- you can generate that RAc8...Vx4 bit of the URI
> using the nanopublication statements.  So this nanopublication, and the "I" in
> it, is the same wherever it is published, for instance at
> http://openphacts.cs.man.ac.uk:8080/nanopub-server/RAc8Mzud0BGGchNwT2-eA1usfvh3bgRXYhGasGG9Q1Vx4.jsonld
> 
> I used [3] and [4] to publish this - thanks to Tobias Kuhn!
> 
> 
> [1] http://nanopub.org/guidelines/working_draft/
> [2] https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.5775
> [3] https://github.com/tkuhn/nanopub-server
> [4] https://github.com/Nanopublication/nanopub-java
> 
> 
> -- 
> Stian Soiland-Reyes
> The University of Manchester
> http://www.esciencelab.org.uk/
> http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9842-9718
> 
> 
>

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