Re: why S doesn't require double properties [was: Datatyping Summary V4]

On 2002-02-04 22:54, "ext Graham Klyne" <Graham.Klyne@MIMEsweeper.com>
wrote:

> At 08:01 PM 2/4/02 +0200, Patrick Stickler wrote:
>> To get clarity and closure on this:
>> 
>>    ASSERTION: Use of both S/A+B idioms will require two versions
>>               of PRISM, DC, MARC, ONIX, etc., one version for
>>               each idiom, and adoption of S/A+B will require
>>               the maintainers of those ontologies to create
>>               and managae dual versions in order
>>               for their ontologies to be used with RDF by
>>               communities employing both idioms concurrently,
>>               or to merge RDF knowledge expressed using
>>               both idioms.
>> 
>> Do you (or does anyone) disagree?
> 
> I disagree.  Under S, one of version each application (ontology) will do
> fine, as long as they don't use the same vocabulary in conflicting
> ways.  And software that wants to syndicate across systems that use
> different idioms must know about the different vocabularies being used to
> be able to translate between them.
> 
> It may be a little messy, but I think it's quite doable, which is why I can
> live with S even if I think it's worth a little effort to see if we can't
> find an even cleaner solution.

I'm not sure you fully understood the question.

To use the same vocabulary with both the S-A and S-B idioms is, per
my understanding, to use it in conflicting ways.

One should be able to merge graphs where folks have employed the same
vocabulary, regardless of idiom used, without concern for conflict.

If they can't do that, then either they can't use both idioms freely
or they need to vocabularies.

Right?

Patrick

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Received on Monday, 4 February 2002 18:40:30 UTC