Re: Identity of URIs. WAS: Re: Is there an NCBI taxonomy in OWL ?

2009-03-02 Thread Xiaoshu Wang
Andrea Splendiani wrote: Hi, I'm not following you 100%. I'm talking about the identity of the URI as a symbol. And I was thinking about a declarative approach, rather than procedural one (or did I misunderstood ?). Up in this thread, I've got an interesting answer by David Booth. I

Re: Identity of URIs. WAS: Re: Is there an NCBI taxonomy in OWL ?

2009-03-02 Thread Andrea Splendiani
Hi, I'm not following you 100%. I'm talking about the identity of the URI as a symbol. And I was thinking about a declarative approach, rather than procedural one (or did I misunderstood ?). Up in this thread, I've got an interesting answer by David Booth. ciao, Andrea Il giorno 02/mar/0

Re: Identity of URIs. WAS: Re: Is there an NCBI taxonomy in OWL ?

2009-03-02 Thread Xiaoshu Wang
Andrea Splendiani wrote: One thing that I think would be very useful, though it poses some semantic problem... is the possibility to assert equivalence in rdf. At the moment equivalence can be asserted only in owl (and this implies a distinction between individuals, properties, classes...).

RE: Identity of URIs. WAS: Re: Is there an NCBI taxonomy in OWL ?

2009-03-01 Thread Booth, David (HP Software - Boston)
> From: Andrea Splendiani > > One thing that I think would be very useful, though it poses some > semantic problem... is the possibility to assert equivalence in rdf. > At the moment equivalence can be asserted only in owl (and this > implies a distinction between individuals, properties, clas

Identity of URIs. WAS: Re: Is there an NCBI taxonomy in OWL ?

2009-02-27 Thread Andrea Splendiani
One thing that I think would be very useful, though it poses some semantic problem... is the possibility to assert equivalence in rdf. At the moment equivalence can be asserted only in owl (and this implies a distinction between individuals, properties, classes...). But that is a lower level