- From: Jonathan Borden <jonathan@openhealth.org>
- Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 16:02:10 -0500
- To: "Dan Brickley" <danbri@w3.org>
- Cc: "Roger L. Costello" <costello@mitre.org>, <www-rdf-logic@w3.org>
Dan Brickley wrote: > > * Jonathan Borden <jonathan@openhealth.org> [2003-03-17 15:31-0500] ..> > > > ex:Speeder foo:fingerprint urn:uuid:12345... . > > ex:Robber foo:fingerprint urn:uuid:12345... . > > > > foo:fingerprint a owl:InverseFunctionalProperty . > > > > => > > > > ex:Speeder owl:sameIndividualAs ex:Robber . > > Actually there is a property in FOAF that fits this usecase. Not > 'fingerprint', but foaf:dnaChecksum. It was intended as a JOKE! but > also a warning of technology potential... (see also various concerns > many have with TIA, eg. http://www.warblogging.com/tia/). > > See http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/ (view src) for > foaf:dnaChecksum definition. I didn't actually specify an algorithm or > even concrete syntax, needless hopefully to say... > Actually there is some interest and progress on using OWL for bioinformatics i.e. representing a gene sequence as a typed RDF description (Jim Hendler has done some work on this) but ... even that is frought with issues, for example, truly *identical twins* are different individuals that might have the same dnaChecksum... nice try though :-))) Jonathan
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