Re: RDF-ISSUE-46 (revisit-rdfms-quoting): Revisit "Should RDF have a mechanism for declaring two uri's to be equivalent?" [Cleanup tasks]

On 05/03/2011 02:19 AM, RDF Working Group Issue Tracker wrote:
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> RDF-ISSUE-46 (revisit-rdfms-quoting): Revisit "Should RDF have a mechanism for declaring two uri's to be equivalent?" [Cleanup tasks]
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> http://www.w3.org/2011/rdf-wg/track/issues/46
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> Raised by: David Wood
> On product: Cleanup tasks
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> See http://www.w3.org/2000/03/rdf-tracking/#rdf-equivalent-uris
> rdf-equivalent-uri's: Should RDF have a mechanism for declaring two
> uri's to be equivalent?
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> RESOLVE: Closed, owl provides owl:sameAs already.
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> Pierre-Antoine wishes to continue discussion:
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-wg/2011Apr/0339.html

in the mail linked above, I said
"unless I was really the only one to argue in favour of including it"

it seemed like a good idea, as owl:sameAs is used in a number of
contexts where the rest of OWL is not really used.

However, some concerns have been raised that
* it may introduce nasty entailments in core RDF
* the intensive use of owl:sameAs raises a number of issues
* if "including it in core RDF" meant minting a new URI, that would
create more issues

I sympathise with all these arguments, so I am not going to champion
this inclusion unless others still feel like it.

  pa

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> NB: The Charter allows us to "Update and extend the RDF Primer. New features may include multi-syntax examples, more up-to-date in terms of the vocabularies used, may deal with issues around Linked Data like the use of “owl:sameAs”, the “follow-your-nose” algorithm, etc."
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