- From: Graham Klyne <GK-lists@ninebynine.org>
- Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 20:58:26 +0100
- To: Jeni Tennison <jeni@jenitennison.com>
- CC: "www-tag@w3.org List" <www-tag@w3.org>
I'm reminded that Danny Ayers recently cited a comment by Dan Connolly: "Are there parts of traditional logic and databases that, if we set them aside, will result in viral growth of the Semantic Web?" -- http://www.w3.org/2006/09dc-aus/swpf#(7) #g -- Jeni Tennison wrote: > Hi, > > For those who don't follow it, there's a thread on httpRange-14 / Issue-57 at the moment on the linked data mailing list. A good example message is: > > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-lod/2011Jun/0186.html > > where Richard says: > > Being useful trumps making semantic sense. The web succeeded *because* > it conflates name and address. The web of data will succeed *because* > it conflates a thing and a web page about the thing. > > <http://richard.cyganiak.de/> > a foaf:Document; > dc:title "Richard Cyganiak's homepage"; > a foaf:Person; > foaf:name "Richard Cyganiak"; > owl:sameAs <http://twitter.com/cygri>; > . > > I don't think that this is covered by any of the scenarios in Jonathan's document at: > > http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/awwsw/issue57/20110531/ > > In particular, I don't think the kind of 'punning' that we talked about (where different properties treat the given resource as being different kinds of thing) copes with the rdf:type property (shortened to 'a' in the Turtle) having two different values. Similarly, it's really unclear in the above example whether the owl:sameAs relates to the Person or the Document (until you find a description of <http://twitter.com/cygri>, which of course might be a resource that is both a Document and a Person itself). > > Cheers, > > Jeni
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