> IMHO, inadequate separation of ontology's domain will have some
> serious side effects in the long run. Aside from wasted bandwidth
> and computation to handle the unnecessary statement, but when more
> ontologies are shared, the chance for incur conflict will increase
> and makes the sharing ontology impossible.
In my opinion, we should stop to care too much about single, delimited
ontologies. When I want to reuse some parts of FOAF while leaving out the
ridiculous parts ('geekcodes', 'dna-checksums' and other jokes), I would simply
extract the classes and properties that I need and add them to my ontology /
software. As I see it, all of these statements should be seen as a global graph
of RDF nodes and arcs. How these are represented locally inside .rdf /.owl
files or through SPARQL endpoints is secondary.
kind regards,
Matthias Samwald
