- From: Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 05:31:34 +0100
- To: Graham Klyne <GK-lists@ninebynine.org>
- Cc: Jeni Tennison <jeni@jenitennison.com>, "www-tag@w3.org List" <www-tag@w3.org>
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: > > "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 > > #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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