Michel_Dumontier wrote:
I just want to focus on the essence of my comments to Michel and Peter
who have issues with the use of 303 redirection to achieve separation
of
datum identity from descriptive representation, when using a
particular
URI scheme.
I am simply interested in explaining to them what this is trying to
achieve since it remains a strange point of contention. I use the
word
"strange" because I believe that the mechanics of the process are
obscuring the fundamental concept in play: Object Identity.
And I'm trying to explain that there is no pragmatic reason to make
explicit the distinction between a biomolecule (and what we know about
it) and a database record (and what we know about the biomolecule)
unless they are actually different. It just complicates things in a
wholly unnecessary way. Your talk of identity does not address this
problem. Increasing the complexity of the model, without citing its
benefits (and acknowledging its disadvantages) will certainly not
convince me. Yet, as others have noted, we are not facing a problem
whose solution is this record/entity distinction.
That being said, it may surprise you that I've been a proponent giving
pointers to documents where description may vary (for example
http://ontology.dumontierlab.com/Protein). But if you're just gonna
redirect me to your one defining document (from a database no less)
where you can attach all the document metadata you want anyways - why
bother! LOL.
-=Michel=-
Michel,
I think these matters will all be clearer (either way) as the Linked
Data mesh expands.
I really responded to the questioning of the use of 303s and simply
tried to explain its purpose.
As long as we aren't conflating an entity with an artifact that
describes it, then there isn't an issue. Should this condition arise,
and I have access to the data in question, I will be able to make a
simpler demonstration of my point :-)
I anticipate a complete reload of Bio2Rdf sometime next week on our
side, once Francois gives the go-ahead.
Kingsley
Kingsley
Cheers,
Bijan.
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