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

2013-03-28 Thread Alan Ruttenberg
> > Let's say I have a graph G1 containing two statements s1 and s2. >>> >> Both s1 and s2 contain the same uri u1. Do you think the RDF specs >> allow me to use interpretation I1 for s1 and interpretation I2 for s2? >> > > If you are asking whether the spec tells you how to determine the truth

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

2013-03-28 Thread David Booth
On 03/28/2013 01:17 PM, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: Hello David, On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 8:51 AM, David Booth wrote: On 03/27/2013 11:02 AM, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: Hello David, So if I understand your view correctly, then it could be expressed in a language close to yours

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

2013-03-28 Thread David Booth
On 03/27/2013 02:04 PM, Pat Hayes wrote: On Mar 27, 2013, at 8:37 AM, David Booth wrote: The RDF Semantics spec only tells you how to compute the truth value of one pair at a time, but you can certainly apply it to as many pairs as you want -- in full conformance with the intent of the spec.

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

2013-03-28 Thread David Booth
Hi Pat, On 03/26/2013 05:52 AM, Pat Hayes wrote: Hi David Sorry if I got a little personal back there, I was getting frustrated. Thanks. I can understand the frustration of trying to communicate with someone who looks at the world differently. :) [Insert joke here about multiple interpr

Re: owl:sameAs - Harmful to provenance?

2013-03-28 Thread Joanne Luciano
When someone feels motivated, it would be great to have this thread summarized (into a paper?) Great to see the discussion. I've only looked at a small fraction of the email messages that were posted, so I may have missed this, was there any mention of tools that would pick up potential proble

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

2013-03-28 Thread Oliver Ruebenacker
Hello David, On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 8:51 AM, David Booth wrote: > On 03/27/2013 11:02 AM, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: >> >> 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

CFP: Vaccine and Drug Ontology Studies

2013-03-28 Thread Tao, Cui, Ph.D.
***Apologies for Multiple and Cross Posting*** Second Call for Paper In the conference of ICBO-2013 or ICBO/CSWS/DILS Semantic Trilogy (at Montreal Canada, 7 July 2013), there will be a workshop titled: Vaccine and Drug Ontology Studies (VDOS-2013) http://www.unbsj.ca/sase/csas/data/ws/semantic

Re: owl:sameAs - Harmful to provenance?

2013-03-28 Thread Michel Dumontier
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 4:31 AM, Michael Erdmann wrote: > On 28.03.2013 06:18, Jeremy J Carroll wrote: > > 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 … modelin

Re: owl:sameAs - Harmful to provenance?

2013-03-28 Thread Michael Erdmann
On 28.03.2013 06:18, Jeremy J Carroll wrote: 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 necessarily approximate and it is not realistic to expect e

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

2013-03-28 Thread David Booth
On 03/27/2013 11:02 AM, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: 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