Re: Issue-57

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 8:58 PM, Graham Klyne <GK-lists@ninebynine.org> wrote:
> I'm reminded that Danny Ayers recently cited a comment by Dan Connolly:
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> "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)

Why does ebola come to mind?
-Alan

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> Jeni Tennison wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> 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:
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>>  http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-lod/2011Jun/0186.html
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>> where Richard says:
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>>  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.
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>>  <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>;
>>    .
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>> I don't think that this is covered by any of the scenarios in Jonathan's
>> document at:
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>>  http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/awwsw/issue57/20110531/
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>> 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).
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>> Cheers,
>>
>> Jeni
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