Re: owl:sameAs - Is it used in a right way?

2013-03-15 Thread Jim McCusker
David, The problem with this is that by definition, URIs ALWAYS denote the same resource. If there is doubt that you might be denoting something other than what a resource is, you should be defining your own resource. Jim On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 12:35 AM, David Booth wrote: > Hi Umutcan, > >

Re: owl:sameAs - Is it used in a right way?

2013-03-15 Thread David Booth
Hi Umutcan, You have indeed stumbled on a deep question, and I think Jeremy's suggestion is exactly right. This paper on "Resource Identity and Semantic Extensions: Making Sense of Ambiguity" illustrates how owl:sameAs works in RDF semantics: http://dbooth.org/2010/ambiguity/paper.html#sameA

Re: Introduction: Jeremy J. Carroll

2013-03-15 Thread M. Scott Marshall
Hello Jeremy, Thank you for introducing yourself. It would be an honor to have you join any of the activities at HCLS. Your expertise will surely strengthen our activities in HCLS. On Monday, we will have a teleconference about common metadata (about an RDF dataset in a named graph) at 3PM CET (1

Re: Introduction: Jeremy J. Carroll

2013-03-15 Thread Michel Dumontier
Welcome Jeremy! Sounds interesting! Many of us are having this very conversation about naming and scaling offlist, and we'll bring you into it. The time slot for the clinical pgx was changed from 11am to 1015am EDT to accomodate my teaching requirements for this term and european participants

Re: owl:sameAs - Is it used in a right way?

2013-03-15 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 3/15/13 6:10 PM, Joanne Luciano wrote: Funny, I follow the tech details- nice practical question and discussion, but i am clueless as to what "horses for courses" compliant means. It's an old English saying [1] :-) Link: 1. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/horses_for_courses . Kingsley J

Re: owl:sameAs - Is it used in a right way?

2013-03-15 Thread Jeremy J Carroll
That practical considerations trump theoretical purity …. it depends what you are doing Hmmm http://www.italki.com/question/107417 suggests it is not US English, and so should have been avoided on this list, which IIRC, is meant to be en-US …. "A mostly British expression urging someone to

Re: owl:sameAs - Is it used in a right way?

2013-03-15 Thread Joanne Luciano
Funny, I follow the tech details- nice practical question and discussion, but i am clueless as to what "horses for courses" compliant means. Joanne Sent from my iPhone On Mar 15, 2013, at 5:11 PM, Jeremy J Carroll wrote: > > On Mar 15, 2013, at 2:06 PM, Kingsley Idehen wrote: > >> "horse

Re: owl:sameAs - Is it used in a right way?

2013-03-15 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 3/15/13 4:40 PM, Jeremy J Carroll wrote: I think Jim's solution looks to me like the best realistic one going forward … having somewhat looser variants of owl:sameAs and ask people to be a bit honest with their use of sameAs … For Alan's approach, I feel a problem is that what we are doing

Introduction: Jeremy J. Carroll

2013-03-15 Thread Jeremy J Carroll
While it doesn't seem to be the convention in this group, now that I have graduated from lurking to participating, I thought I should say why I am here. I have a new job with a genomics company in Silicon Valley, and my remit is to work out how best to represent both scientific knowledge about

RE: owl:sameAs - Is it used in a right way?

2013-03-15 Thread Rich Cooper
While this discussion is on the subjective evaluation of two individuals, there is another situation which should be considered. That is when individual A makes a graph of her observations, and individual B reviews A's graph, critiques, evaluates, modifies or interprets A's graph. For example,

Re: owl:sameAs - Is it used in a right way?

2013-03-15 Thread Jim McCusker
Indeed, it even frees you up to determine what semantics you need in that context. A property chain is pretty simple to write... Jim On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 5:16 PM, Kingsley Idehen wrote: > On 3/15/13 3:18 PM, Jim McCusker wrote: > > This is a useful solution, but doesn't address issues that

Re: owl:sameAs - Is it used in a right way?

2013-03-15 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 3/15/13 3:18 PM, Jim McCusker wrote: This is a useful solution, but doesn't address issues that arise when Gu or Gj contain owl:sameAs triples, but the authors of those graphs didn't actually mean the full OWL semantics by it. In the provenance WG, we have come up with two relations that are

RE: owl:sameAs - Is it used in a right way?

2013-03-15 Thread Obrst, Leo J.
SKOS addresses terms, i.e., lexical resources, vocabularies, rather than concepts (ontologies), so could be used if you have perhaps distinct terminology that maps to OWL/RDF ontologies. SKOS provides term resources that help you map your vocabulary to OWL ontologies. That’s its purpose. So if y

Re: owl:sameAs - Is it used in a right way?

2013-03-15 Thread Jeremy J Carroll
On Mar 15, 2013, at 2:06 PM, Kingsley Idehen wrote: > "horses for courses" compliant wonderful!

Re: owl:sameAs - Is it used in a right way?

2013-03-15 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 3/15/13 2:29 PM, Jeremy J Carroll wrote: I did not find this a rookie question at all. This seems to get to the heart of some of the real difficult issues in Semantic Web. My perspective is different from yours, and a resource description that I author is a description of the resource from

Re: owl:sameAs - Is it used in a right way?

2013-03-15 Thread Jim McCusker
SKOS properties only apply to concepts. So if you're describing concepts, go wild. But they don't cover the world. Jim On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 5:00 PM, Umutcan ŞİMŞEK wrote: > And I forgot to ask, can there be a solution based on SKOS vocabulary? > AFAIK, SKOS properties are more flexible and

Re: owl:sameAs - Is it used in a right way?

2013-03-15 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 3/15/13 2:02 PM, Umutcan ŞİMŞEK wrote: Thanks for the quick answer : ) So this issue is that subjective for contexts which allows to use owl:sameAs to link resources if they are not semantically even a little bit related in real world? Of course not. The problem is that you come to a poi

Re: owl:sameAs - Is it used in a right way?

2013-03-15 Thread Umutcan ŞİMŞEK
And I forgot to ask, can there be a solution based on SKOS vocabulary? AFAIK, SKOS properties are more flexible and semantically looser than owl:sameAs. On 15-03-2013 22:40, Jeremy J Carroll wrote: I think Jim's solution looks to me like the best realistic one going forward … having somewhat l

Re: owl:sameAs - Is it used in a right way?

2013-03-15 Thread Jeremy J Carroll
I think Jim's solution looks to me like the best realistic one going forward … having somewhat looser variants of owl:sameAs and ask people to be a bit honest with their use of sameAs … For Alan's approach, I feel a problem is that what we are doing is making an approximate model of the world,

Re: owl:sameAs - Is it used in a right way?

2013-03-15 Thread Umutcan ŞİMŞEK
As I read your detailed answers and dug into web about the issue, I started to get how big deal is this. Seperation of description of a thing and thing's itself seems a better and easier to get solution. I don't think I will have a big problem for lodd but for further works I may have. Here t

Re: owl:sameAs - Is it used in a right way?

2013-03-15 Thread Alan Ruttenberg
There's another perspective, which is to to distinguish descriptions of things from the things themselves. This works if you can agree on identity of the thing but not necessarily on the way to describe it. As an example, consider the class of cars manufactured by Nissan (call it Cn). If you can ag

Re: owl:sameAs - Is it used in a right way?

2013-03-15 Thread Jim McCusker
This is a useful solution, but doesn't address issues that arise when Gu or Gj contain owl:sameAs triples, but the authors of those graphs didn't actually mean the full OWL semantics by it. In the provenance WG, we have come up with two relations that are sameAs-like, but no not have the full owl:s

Re: owl:sameAs - Is it used in a right way?

2013-03-15 Thread Umutcan ŞİMŞEK
That made it clear, thanks again. I'm sure it will be helpful for other developers either in the future. Umutcan On 15-03-2013 20:29, Jeremy J Carroll wrote: I did not find this a rookie question at all. This seems to get to the heart of some of the real difficult issues in Semantic Web. M

RE: owl:sameAs - Is it used in a right way?

2013-03-15 Thread Bonnie MacKellar
Hi, I have been struggling with exactly the same questions in some work I am doing, and seem to have hit on this same three graph solution. I am glad to see someone else is thinking this way, because rookie that I am, I wasn't sure if I was going down a bad path or not. Bonnie MacKellar macke.

Re: owl:sameAs - Is it used in a right way?

2013-03-15 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 3/15/13 1:05 PM, Umutcan ŞİMŞEK wrote: My question is, does LODD use owl:sameAs properly? For instance, are those two resources, dbpedia:Metamizole and drugbank:DB04817 (code for Metamizole), really identical? Or am I getting the word "property" in the paper wrong? The question is always abo

Re: owl:sameAs - Is it used in a right way?

2013-03-15 Thread Jeremy J Carroll
I did not find this a rookie question at all. This seems to get to the heart of some of the real difficult issues in Semantic Web. My perspective is different from yours, and a resource description that I author is a description of the resource from my perspective; a resource description that

Re: owl:sameAs - Is it used in a right way?

2013-03-15 Thread Umutcan ŞİMŞEK
Thanks for the quick answer : ) So this issue is that subjective for contexts which allows to use owl:sameAs to link resources if they are not semantically even a little bit related in real world? Sorry if I'm asking too basic questions. I'm still a rookie at this :D Umutcan On 15-03-2013

owl:sameAs - Is it used in a right way?

2013-03-15 Thread Umutcan ŞİMŞEK
Hi folks, I am started to being bugged after reading the paper called "When owl:sameAs isn’t the Same: An Analysis of Identity Links on the Semantic Web"[1] According to W3, definition of owl:sameAs is this: 'Such an|owl:sameAs|statement indicates that two URI references actually refer to th