There is overwhelming research [1, 2, 3] and I think it is evident at
this point that owl:sameAs is used inarticulately in the LOD cloud.
The research that I've done makes me conclude that we need to do a
massive sweep of the LOD cloud and adopt owl:sameSameButDifferent.
I think the terminology is human-friendly enough that there will be
minimal confusion down the line, but for the the pedants among us, we
can define it along the lines of:
The built-in OWL property owl:sameSameButDifferent links things to
things. Such an owl:sameSameButDifferent statement indicates that two
URI references actually refer to the same thing but may be different
under some circumstances.
Thoughts?
[1] https://www.w3.org/2009/12/rdf-ws/papers/ws21
[2] http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/coreconcepts#terms_sameAs
[3] http://schema.org/sameAs
-Sarven
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