And would we also have owl:differentDifferentButSame? The built-in OWL property owl:differentDifferentButSame links things to things. Such an owl:differentDifferentButSame statement indicates that two URI references actually refer to different things but may be the same under some circumstances.
> On 1 Apr 2016, at 14:01, Sarven Capadisli <i...@csarven.ca> wrote: > > There is overwhelming research [1, 2, 3] and I think it is evident at this > point that owl:sameAs is used inarticulately in the LOD cloud. > > The research that I've done makes me conclude that we need to do a massive > sweep of the LOD cloud and adopt owl:sameSameButDifferent. > > I think the terminology is human-friendly enough that there will be minimal > confusion down the line, but for the the pedants among us, we can define it > along the lines of: > > > The built-in OWL property owl:sameSameButDifferent links things to things. > Such an owl:sameSameButDifferent statement indicates that two URI references > actually refer to the same thing but may be different under some > circumstances. > > > Thoughts? > > [1] https://www.w3.org/2009/12/rdf-ws/papers/ws21 > [2] http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/coreconcepts#terms_sameAs > [3] http://schema.org/sameAs > > -Sarven > http://csarven.ca/#i >
