- From: Patrick Stickler <patrick.stickler@nokia.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 09:59:51 +0200
- To: "ext Sandro Hawke" <sandro@w3.org>
- Cc: www-rdf-interest@w3.org, Jeff Thompson <jeff@thefirst.org>
On Feb 10, 2004, at 01:56, ext Sandro Hawke wrote: > > >> dmoz.org has identifiers for movies, and so does tap.stanford.edu. >> For examp >> le, >> dmoz.org uses "Top/Arts/Movies/Titles/M/Matrix_Series/Matrix,_The" >> and tap.stanford.edu uses "http://tap.stanford.edu/data/MovieMatrix" >> and there may be others. >> >> I don't see any of these sites using triples that say one is >> owl:sameAs the >> other. >> >> Who is actually supposed to be responsible for sameAs assertions? >> dmoz.org? >> TAP? Or some third party? > > No one is responsible, but lots will benefit if each side does it, and > maybe some others, too. > >> Is this in practice a showstopper for useful semantic web searches? >> (This may be FAQ but I couldn't find it.) > > The flip side is that you CAN say owl:sameAs on the Semantic Web. > > -- sandro > Right, and it is issues such as these that provide opportunities for the development of services which add value to knowledge harvested from the web -- by categorizing/qualifying/equating according to some unifying ontology/ontologies, which results in more effective knowledge discovery. Patrick -- Patrick Stickler Nokia, Finland patrick.stickler@nokia.com
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