Hi, I think you are just noticing the effects of real life when logic gets actually used. All predicates can get misused, because their semantics cannot be just syntactically checked, it depends on the intentions and practices of modellers and users of applications.
On the other hand, there are already other predicates that can be used, such as rdfs:seeAlso, skos:closeMatch, etc., let alone probabilistic and fuzzy varieties of OWL for reasoning in presence of uncertainties of various kinds. I’d rather keep the problem of creating vocabularies separate from that of cleaning up existing data. The second can be done for specific needs (see e.g. a recent paper by Heiko Paulheim and myself on scalable DBpedia cleanup [1]), while the dream of a global consistent semantic web is unsustainable, owl:sameAs or anything not the same of a different sameness :) Ciao Aldo [http://www.heikopaulheim.com/docs/iswc2015.pdf] > On 01 Apr 2016, at 15:32, Henry Story <henry.st...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> 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. > > What you need is mereologial logic so that you can start speaking of things > overlapping, being mostly the same, etc... > See Slide 26 of Jim Hendler's talk ( and the whole set of slides) > "On Beyond OWL: challenges for ontologies on the Web" > > http://www.slideshare.net/jahendler/on-beyond-owl-challenges-for-ontologies-on-the-web > > >> >> >> 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 >> > >
