Re: owl:sameAs - Harmful to provenance?

[Kingsley Idehen]

On 4/9/13 1:25 PM, Michel Dumontier wrote:

And the same can be said for teaching people how to construct *useful* ontologies (in OWL or any other language for that matter). If the principles are simple and coherent, then the execution will be straightforward and effective.

Yes! No problem with that :-)

Kingsley

m.

On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Kingsley Idehen <kide...@openlinksw.com <mailto:kide...@openlinksw.com>> wrote:

    On 4/9/13 12:40 PM, Phillip Lord wrote:

        Kingsley Idehen <kide...@openlinksw.com
        <mailto:kide...@openlinksw.com>> writes:

            On 4/9/13 11:31 AM, Phillip Lord wrote:

                Compare all you like. RDF is just another technology;
                it's not going to
                let me do anything that I cannot do in another way.

            So you are questioning its unique selling points, I assume?

        No. I don't care. I just care whether it's useful. Who cares
        whether
        it's uniquely useful.

            If so, can you point us to a technology that addresses the
            issue of
            grounding logic in data
            -- in a manner that's totally platform independent?

        It's a data representation technology. Lots of things do this.
        "Totally
        platform independent". I don't know what "platform" means
        these days.

            We want to be able to leverage logic in the process of
            actual data
            representation, access, integration, and management. I
            know of no technology
            that addresses the problem like RDF i.e., in a platform
            agnostic manner that
            echoes the essence of the Web itself.

        RDF is nice. It's useful. It will remain useful, at least if
        people are
        allowed to use it without being told that they are doing it
        all wrong.

        I am not attacking RDF; I am attacking the notion that
        everything has to
        be perfect, to work in every circumstance, for it to be useful
        at all.

        Phil



    Phil,

    I do agree totally with the notion of not teaching folks RDF by
    always inferring that they are doing it wrong :-)



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Michel Dumontier
Associate Professor of Bioinformatics, Carleton University

http://dumontierlab.com

-- Chair, W3C Semantic Web for Health Care and the Life Sciences Interest Group

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