> On 1 Apr 2016, at 14:01, Sarven Capadisli <i...@csarven.ca> wrote: > > 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.
What you need is mereologial logic so that you can start speaking of things overlapping, being mostly the same, etc... See Slide 26 of Jim Hendler's talk ( and the whole set of slides) "On Beyond OWL: challenges for ontologies on the Web" http://www.slideshare.net/jahendler/on-beyond-owl-challenges-for-ontologies-on-the-web > > > 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 > http://csarven.ca/#i >
