Re: [Freebase-experts] ISBNs, owl:sameAs, etc

This issue had several threads on mailing lists. See e.g. my recap of a thread in SWIG from May 2008 [1]. Not a lot of evolution from that time, except it seems now pretty clear that we need a vocabulary to talk about different similarity relations (the most recent request for it came from

Re: [Freebase-experts] ISBNs, owl:sameAs, etc

hi ross, apologies for the delay! as long as both URIs represent a book title, i have no objections. my comment was a rather generic warning - URNs and "non-URN URIs" can of course be linked by owl:sameAs. intelligence of a human or machine agent depends on the subtleness and quality of that

Re: [Freebase-experts] ISBNs, owl:sameAs, etc

Martin, Given that there's apparently considerable disagreement here (and probably plenty of confusion), can you elaborate on what exactly you object to in this request? The first objection I saw raised was by Tom Morris ("is a FreeBase topic really a book?") and agree that urn:isbn:9780670063260

Re: [Freebase-experts] ISBNs, owl:sameAs, etc

dear all: quite clearly, a book title is not the same as a book, and if the linked data community continues to link apples and oranges via owl:sameAs then either - the socially agreed meaning owl:sameAs is being degraded to untyped href in HTML or - vast amount of data in the linked data cl

Re: [Freebase-experts] ISBNs, owl:sameAs, etc

Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Tom Morris > wrote: But is the description of the book (ie Freebase topic) really the same thing as the book? Assuming it was, wouldn't you not only have to make the sameAs assertions and publi

Re: [Freebase-experts] ISBNs, owl:sameAs, etc

On 29/12/2009 07:56, "Daniel O'Connor" wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Tom Morris wrote: >> But is the description of the book (ie Freebase topic) really the same >> thing as the book? >> >> Assuming it was, wouldn't you not only have to make the sameAs >> assertions and publish

Re: [Freebase-experts] ISBNs, owl:sameAs, etc

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Tom Morris wrote: > But is the description of the book (ie Freebase topic) really the same > thing as the book? > > Assuming it was, wouldn't you not only have to make the sameAs > assertions and publish them someplace, but also get them loaded into > sameas.org?