Re: URI thoughts

Donald's solution feels a little circular. The interpretation of these relations still need a formal specification, which OWL would do nicely for, but then OWL already defines similar constructs. I think the "one true ontology" idea fails simply through open world semantics; I'm not sure

RE: URI thoughts

Eric, What you call "covering" below seems particularly important. In my view, there can never be one true ontology, especially in science (unless we're done and have reached complete knowledge...if that's possible). You present an interesting solution... Don Donald Doherty, Ph.D. Brainstage Re

RE: URI thoughts

> If you or someone adds a new property to their base graph, > the basic RDF model will allow merging, but that will not > prevent inconsistencies( or "opinions") from being added. We > will eventually have to address these issues of provenance, Agree. Provenance is an important issue in an o

RE: URI thoughts

Xiaoshu , Hmmm... I see a possible reason why SW is often hard to understand from a data provider point of view Authority is the organization that has published annotated data, such as NCBI or SwissProt. For the foreseeable future, they will be responsible for curating and managing some

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> > Assuming I have a RDF model of the follows. > > > > @prefix rdf: http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#. > > @prefix dctype: http://dublincore.org/2003/12/08/dctype# > > > > > rdf:type dctype:Image. > > > > A simple model without any

RE: URI thoughts

Assuming I have a RDF model of the follows. @prefix rdf: http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#. @prefix dctype: http://dublincore.org/2003/12/08/dctype# rdf:type dctype:Image. A simple model without any closure will contain only thi

RE: URI thoughts

> Perhaps a concrete example could enlighten my difficulty in > understanding the value in: > > 1) 'forcefully' attempting to dereference all URI terms in an > instance graph (which is what is described as a 'full' or > unrestricted Web Closure in http://esw.w3.org/topic/WebClosure) Thanks, C

Re: URI thoughts

Perhaps a concrete example could enlighten my difficulty in understanding the value in: 1) 'forcefully' attempting to dereference all URI terms in an instance graph (which is what is described as a 'full' or unrestricted Web Closure in http://esw.w3.org/topic/WebClosure) 2) In using data r

RE: URI thoughts

> 1) Dereferencing: The dereferencing of a URI to a data record > results in the return of all the "authority managed" > information about it (locally curated data) in the form of a > RDF graph. Outside annotations would not be included unless > the authority provided an open annotative servic

Re: URI thoughts

I think that these valuable ideas can be supplemented by an additional set of properties (here, I am making a perhaps false assumption that Eric's "strawperson" proposal doesn't already anticipate subject identity properties). Appealing to Peircian notions for subject identity is, I believe,