Hello All, 2009/3/23 Michel_Dumontier <michel_dumont...@carleton.ca>: > I do not think this would be a wise "simplification". This is only a > simplification from one perspective: because it avoids having to mint > and maintain pairs of URIs instead of a single URI. But the downstream > cost is that it creates an ambiguity (or "URI collision") > http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/#URI-collision > that may cause trouble and be difficult to untangle later as the data is > used in more and more ways. For example, if any of the same predicates > need to be used on both the record and the molecular entity, they will > become hopelessly confused. Also, if disjointness assertions are > included then this overloading may cause logical contraditions.
Can any one name a real world example of where confusion between an entity and its record was issue? Take care Oliver -- Oliver Ruebenacker, Computational Cell Biologist BioPAX Integration at Virtual Cell (http://vcell.org/biopax) Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling http://www.oliver.curiousworld.org