Hugh Glaser wrote:
Thanks guys, a really interesting and important discussion. However, after the last couple of postings I have the feeling I may agree with both of you. Is that possible?
Bijan et. al. are right about the semantics of owl:sameAs, but as I've said before, I think that something weaker needs to be coined ("lod:equivalentTo") that states that two URIs refer to the same thing but that any semantic entailments *may* not hold (i.e. user beware). That's a dangerous thing, I agree, but it seems to be what the Linked Data community needs and what's happening organically in the wild with the (ab)use of owl:sameAs.
Hugh
