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| + | == Background == | ||
| + | In May 2008, Michael Uschold kicked off a discussion with the subject "A Semantic Elephant" describing the unnecessary and costly proliferation of URIs and owl:sameAs links. This discussion evolved to be mostly about managing co-reference. Intitialy private, this discussion was moved to the [http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/semantic-web/ W3C Semantic Web Discussion List] at Tim Berners-Lee's request. See: [http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/semantic-web/2008May/0081.html Managing Co-reference (Was: A Semantic Elephant?)]. | ||
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| + | The original discussion evolved into a discussion about owl:sameAs per se, which has been a recurring topic on various lists over the years. [http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/semantic-web/2008May/0126.html Aldo Gangemi provided a concise summary on May 16, 2008]. | ||
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| + | In October 2008, Uschold started a closely related discussion focused more on challenges with Versioning and URIs. It was under the subject: [http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/semantic-web/2008Oct/0192.html URIs and Unique IDs]. | ||
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| + | From all this, Uschold teased out three distinct but closely related modeling isssues that are in this ODP Wiki: | ||
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| + | # [[Community:Overloading OWL sameAs]]: sameAs is being used in the linked data community in a way that is inconsistent with its semantics | ||
| + | # [[Community:Proliferation of URIs, Managing Coreference]]: How to avoid or manage two negative consequences to the current proliferation of new URIs being minted for the same things. Specifically: | ||
| + | ## it is hard to find when two things should be the same | ||
| + | ## even if you can find the links, prolific use of owl:sameAs will create computational problems. | ||
| + | # [[Community:Versioning and URIs]]: When and whether to make new URIs for different versions of things. | ||
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