Dear Sarven, Aldo, friends, After some research, I realized that SameSameButDifferent already has a URI at IMDB, maybe it could be re-used:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1368443/ HTH, Axel > On 01 Apr 2016, at 19:22, Aldo Gangemi <aldo.gang...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Sarven, your April Fool’s provocation started a really serious thread ;) > >> On 01 Apr 2016, at 18:15, Simon Spero <sesunc...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> It's less of a joke when it's a much argued topic within philosophical >> Ontology. >> >> Your proposal is somewhat close to Geach's denial of absolute identity, >> though it is not clear what your precise stance on identity is, or, if you >> own a donkey, whether you have stopped beating it. >> >> Can you clarify whether you are dispensing with entities? >> >> Also, can you write up the other required changes to the OWL specifications >> required to prevent backdoor assertions that are equivalent to sameAs - >> Monday morning would be ideal so I'm going to need you work on it on >> Saturday. Yeah, that would be great. >> >> Simon >> >> On Apr 1, 2016 9:10 AM, "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 >> >
