Re: Trying to summarise: Semantic free identifiers

2011-06-22 Thread Chime Ogbuji
Pat, see my responses inline below. On Wednesday, June 22, 2011 at 1:13 AM, Pat Hayes wrote: > On Jun 21, 2011, at 11:24 PM, Chime Ogbuji wrote: > > The Relations Ontology is very central to many of the recently developed > > biomedical ontologies and (speaking only for myself - since is the realm

FW: Trying to summarise: Semantic free identifiers

2011-06-22 Thread Michel_Dumontier
Reposting to the list: > >>> Honestly, I read this stuff and I'm thinking that you aren't listening > >>> to what you are saying and applying even a minimal amount of critical > >>> analysis to relate working with RDF to any other kind of skilled > >>> labor. > >> > >>  Most skilled workers want t

RE: Trying to summarise: Semantic free identifiers

2011-06-22 Thread Michel_Dumontier
I ran across this @lamebook, and I couldn't help but draw a parallel to our conversation : http://www.lamebook.com/meet-shameful/ in good fun ;) m.

Re: Trying to summarise: Semantic free identifiers

2011-06-22 Thread Andrea Splendiani
Hi, Il giorno 22/giu/2011, alle ore 06.13, Pat Hayes ha scritto: > >> (but primarily to biomedical ontologies - hence the relevance to this >> interest group mailing list) and as much as I agree with you about the >> issues associated with requiring opaque identifiers, this discussion is >> ac

Re: Trying to summarise: Semantic free identifiers

2011-06-21 Thread Pat Hayes
On Jun 21, 2011, at 11:24 PM, Chime Ogbuji wrote: > Pat, I don't think this discussion was meant to apply to the semantic web > generally Im glad to hear so. It did rather sound like it was. however, hence my hair-tearing. > (but primarily to biomedical ontologies - hence the relevance to thi

Re: Trying to summarise: Semantic free identifiers

2011-06-21 Thread Chime Ogbuji
Pat, I don't think this discussion was meant to apply to the semantic web generally (but primarily to biomedical ontologies - hence the relevance to this interest group mailing list) and as much as I agree with you about the issues associated with requiring opaque identifiers, this discussion is

Re: Trying to summarise: Semantic free identifiers

2011-06-21 Thread Pat Hayes
This entire discussion is simply absurd, if it is supposed to apply to the semantic web generally. OF COURSE people are not going to re-name the RDFS or OWL vocabulary (for example) with 'opaque' names. Programming languages are not going to use opaque identifiers for their reserved vocabularie

Re: Trying to summarise: Semantic free identifiers

2011-06-21 Thread Oliver Ruebenacker
Hello, On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 3:13 PM, James Malone wrote: > So.. a long but useful discussion. That will teach me to open my big mouth :) > > Is this fair as the PRIMARY reasons for this difference in opinions: > > 1. Having semantic information such as a label in a URI makes it easier > t

RE: Trying to summarise: Semantic free identifiers

2011-06-21 Thread Michel_Dumontier
> I think one of the main point is the role of the 'web'. The role of the 'web' in Semantic Web is that we can publish and share our formalized data/knowledge using HTTP URIs - with minimal coordination (e.g. once you find something you like, you can reference it using its URI; regardless of wh

Re: Trying to summarise: Semantic free identifiers

2011-06-21 Thread Mark
On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 12:41:12 -0700, Andrea Splendiani wrote: I bet we could make a test and see the correlation between who prefers opaque vs transparent ids, and who prefers OWL-apis vs Jena. :-) I bet you are absolutely correct about that! :-) M

Re: Trying to summarise: Semantic free identifiers

2011-06-21 Thread Andrea Splendiani
Skipping the line of reasoning that leads to these conclusions... I think one of the main point is the role of the 'web'. Whether we are talking about terminologies encoded in OWL/RDF, or about a distributed web-based information space. I bet we could make a test and see the correlation between

Re: Trying to summarise: Semantic free identifiers

2011-06-21 Thread Jim McCusker
Personally, I don't want tooling to "help". I want to be able to look at what would otherwise be a perfectly readable serialization (Manchester OWL, Turtle, etc.) and be able to read and write it without constantly referring to lookups. I've seen this discussion in the software engineering world ma

Trying to summarise: Semantic free identifiers

2011-06-21 Thread James Malone
So.. a long but useful discussion. That will teach me to open my big mouth :) Is this fair as the PRIMARY reasons for this difference in opinions: 1. Having semantic information such as a label in a URI makes it easier to, at a glance, grasp some sort of meaning of a class/predicate and makes SPA