Re: Terminology Question concerning Web Architecture and LinkedData

On Jul 11, 2007, at 8:44 AM, Chris Bizer wrote:

> Question 1: According to the terminology of the Architecture of the  
> WWW
> document [4] are all these URIs aliases for the same non-information
> resource (our current view) or are they referring to different  
> resources?
>
> Alan:
> This is a question of what the publishers of those URI's say they  
> mean to
> denote by those URIs, or alternatively, what a community of users  
> agrees these
> URIs shall denote.
>
> This nicely corresponds to Dan's answer to question 3 :-)

Hardly. Dan claims that the correctness of an assertion saying they  
are the same depends on Tim saying so. I say that this has something  
to do with truth.

> Question 3: Is it correct to use owl:sameAs [6] to state that  
> http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/card#i and
> http://dbpedia.org/resource/Tim_Berners-Lee refer to the same thing  
> as it is done in Tim's profile?
>
> Dan:
>> It's correct because Tim says it's correct, and he owns that name.
>
> I like this answer as it clearly points at the Semantic Web being a  
> social system where information providers express their opinions  
> which can be right or wrong. Tim is stating that he thinks that  
> both URIs refer to the same non-information resource. It is now up  
> to the information consumer to decide if he likes to believe this  
> statement or not.

That is a different interpretation than what was offered by Dan. He  
did not say that the correctness was a matter of Tim's belief. He  
said it is correct because Tim says so. That's a pretty big  
difference. I consider your statement of the answer to be more  
realistic.

-Alan

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