On 13 Jun 2011, at 20:51, David Booth wrote: >> <http://richard.cyganiak.de/> >> a foaf:Document; >> dc:title "Richard Cyganiak's homepage"; >> a foaf:Person; >> foaf:name "Richard Cyganiak"; >> owl:sameAs <http://twitter.com/cygri>; >> . > > That should be fine for applications that do not need to distinguish > between foaf:Documents and foaf:Persons . . . which is a large class of > applications. OTOH, there *are* applications that need to distinguish > between foaf:Documents and foaf:Persons. *Those* applications will need > to apply disambiguation techniques, and some of their owners will > (wrongly) blame you for the perceived "extra" work it causes them -- > "extra" only because they happen to be implementing a different class of > application than your data best supports.
Yes, good analysis. Best, Richard
