Re: owl:sameAs - Harmful to provenance?

2013-03-27 Thread Jeremy J Carroll
On Mar 27, 2013, at 7:56 PM, Pat Hayes wrote: > I guess your analogy to GOTO put my back up a little. I rather liked the GOTO/owl:sameAs presentation … and I am not sure that the problem can be explained away as modeling errors. To me it does seem that there is a case to answer … modeling is

Re: owl:sameAs - Harmful to provenance?

2013-03-27 Thread Jim McCusker
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 10:56 PM, Pat Hayes wrote: > Well, I agree that is a problem, but don't draw the conclusion that there > is something wrong with sameAs, just because people keep using it wrong. I > guess your analogy to GOTO put my back up a little. > The analogy to GOTO was pretty apt,

Re: owl:sameAs - Harmful to provenance?

2013-03-27 Thread Pat Hayes
On Mar 27, 2013, at 7:32 PM, Jim McCusker wrote: > (Sorry about the empty reply to myself) > > On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 8:30 PM, Jim McCusker wrote: > On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 8:26 PM, Pat Hayes wrote: > That "option" is already available, if you use owl:sameAs correctly (and do > not confuse i

Re: owl:sameAs - Harmful to provenance?

2013-03-27 Thread Jim McCusker
(Sorry about the empty reply to myself) On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 8:30 PM, Jim McCusker wrote: > On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 8:26 PM, Pat Hayes wrote: > >> That "option" is already available, if you use owl:sameAs correctly (and >> do not confuse information about some thing with meta-information abo

Re: owl:sameAs - Harmful to provenance?

2013-03-27 Thread Jim McCusker
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 8:30 PM, Jim McCusker wrote: > On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 8:26 PM, Pat Hayes wrote: > >> That "option" is already available, if you use owl:sameAs correctly (and >> do not confuse information about some thing with meta-information about >> that information. The meta-informat

Re: owl:sameAs - Harmful to provenance?

2013-03-27 Thread Jim McCusker
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 8:26 PM, Pat Hayes wrote: > That "option" is already available, if you use owl:sameAs correctly (and > do not confuse information about some thing with meta-information about > that information. The meta-information is not about the thing. > If only owl:sameAs were used c

Re: owl:sameAs - Harmful to provenance?

2013-03-27 Thread Pat Hayes
On Mar 27, 2013, at 12:31 PM, Rafael Richards wrote: > This has been a very prolific thread, but did we discuss provenance? > > A slideshare on owl:sameAs - Harmful to Provenance is here: > > http://www.slideshare.net/jpmccusker/owlsameas-considered-harmful-to-provenance > > Presentation Abst

Re: owl:sameAs - Harmful to provenance?

2013-03-27 Thread Jim McCusker
PROV is now a Proposed Recommendation, which means the model has been frozen for quite some time. It is also potentially very lightweight, you don't have to use all of it to gain benefits from it. Simple derivation graphs can be composed using prov:wasDerivedFrom, and there are many properties, suc

Re: owl:sameAs - Harmful to provenance?

2013-03-27 Thread Bob Futrelle
So I assume that you feel that PROV is in a state that you can start building conforming tools. SInce I'm the sole developer of my NLP system, I just don't have the time to devote to something as big and "heavy" as PROV. But I'm happy to see the work going on. Somewhere down the road I will have

RE: owl:sameAs - Harmful to provenance?

2013-03-27 Thread Robert Stanley
It's also encouraging that w3c HCLS is focusing actively on the provenance discussion. We've found (and presented on) practical benefits from use of PROV-O and VoID. All the best, Bob From: Jim McCusker [mailto:james.mccus...@yale.edu] Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2013 12:43 PM To:

Re: 'Variants' and Chromosome Modelling

2013-03-27 Thread Jeremy J Carroll
Hi Bob I am a message behind in my thinking, thanks for all your input. My use case is a lot less clear than it could be … in that the contribution I am seeking to make lies somewhere in the tool-chain, not at the very bottom, but also not right next to the scientists or clinicians working wit

Re: owl:sameAs - Harmful to provenance?

2013-03-27 Thread Jim McCusker
Which is why PROV exists. Now we have a floor to work from. I've already integrated it into a number of projects. Jim On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Bob Futrelle wrote: > Provenance techniques/tools/systems are nowhere near what they could to be. > Each provenance system or "standard" ends up

Re: owl:sameAs - Harmful to provenance?

2013-03-27 Thread Bob Futrelle
Provenance techniques/tools/systems are nowhere near what they could to be. Each provenance system or "standard" ends up being unique so the information is not inter-operative. One example among the many: http://openprovenance.org/ These days, I'm more focused on NLP than serious knowledge system

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

2013-03-27 Thread Pat Hayes
On Mar 27, 2013, at 8:37 AM, David Booth wrote: > Hi Oliver, > > On 03/25/2013 04:02 PM, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: >> Hello David, >> >> We agree that there are different interpretations. But you haven't >> shown that the boundaries between interpretations are graphs >> boundaries (other

Re: owl:sameAs - Harmful to provenance?

2013-03-27 Thread Jim McCusker
The short answer: not anymore, if you use prov:alternateOf and prov:specializationOf instead. Jim On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Rafael Richards wrote: > This has been a very prolific thread, but did we discuss provenance? > > A slideshare on owl:sameAs - Harmful to Provenance is here: > >

Re: owl:sameAs - Harmful to provenance?

2013-03-27 Thread Rafael Richards
This has been a very prolific thread, but did we discuss provenance? A slideshare on owl:sameAs - Harmful to Provenance is here: http://www.slideshare.net/jpmccusker/owlsameas-considered-harmful-to-provenance Presentation Abstract: GOTO was once a standard operation in most computer programming

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

2013-03-27 Thread Oliver Ruebenacker
Hello David, So if I understand your view correctly, then it could be expressed in a language close to yours as: "Some people believe that if a URI occurs twice within a graph or statement, it refers to the same thing. But this is a myth! RDF never guarantees that two occurrences of the

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

2013-03-27 Thread David Booth
Hi Oliver, On 03/25/2013 04:02 PM, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: Hello David, We agree that there are different interpretations. But you haven't shown that the boundaries between interpretations are graphs boundaries (others, including me, think that each interpretation is global). I don