On 4/4/13 7:10 AM, Hugh Glaser wrote:
>So, sorry, I don't see where is the crime…
Typical situation from a published file (that happened):
uri:building-one uri:has-architect "Hugh Casson" .
So all I can really do with this is print the name "Hugh Casson" on a page 
about the building.
If there is also
uri:building-two uri:has-architect "Hugh Casson" .
I can only print the "Hugh Casson" twice - there is no connection between the 
actual architects.
(A/The whole point of Semantic Web technologies is that we don't do risky 
things like assuming similar string resources identify the same implied 
real-world things.)
Even if I have worked out that they are the same "Hugh Casson" agent, I have no 
simple way of representing or stating this.
And of course if there is another triple:
uri:building-three uri:has-architect "Hugh Casson Partners" .
I am completely stuffed in terms of adding any value to the knowledge (other 
than asserting loads of triples to say what I want).

Of course, the data was fine for the publisher - all they wanted to do was 
annotate the text in an html page with the name of the architect.
Since they were new into Linked Data, it took me a little while to get across 
that other people might want to do other things (such as list all the buildings 
by architect).

Strangely enough, I ran into this onhttp://data.semanticweb.org  a couple of 
days ago.
The keywords for papers are:
At the moment, pages such as
http://data.semanticweb.org/conference/iswc/2012/paper/inuse-51
have things like
<dc:subject>Provenance</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>Linked Data</dc:subject>
and also
<dcterms:subject>Linked Data</dcterms:subject>

This means that I can't easily do linkage.
I'm actually trying to find out if anyone currently loves the site and can fix 
it - does anyone know?:-)

Cheers

When explaining Linked Data to my kids, I used puzzle pieces. I used the edge-pieces as examples of literal objects (in a triple) and the mutli-connector-pieces as URIs. This enabled them realize there's a big difference between building a single jigsaw puzzle (a silo) and one that's ultimately endless (a global Web) :-)

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