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Re: many-to-many

• To: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Subject: Re: many-to-many
• From: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@f...>
• Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 08:48:12 -0700
• Cc: seairth@s... (Seairth Jacobs), xml-dev@l... (xml-dev)
• In-reply-to: Message from John Cowan <jcowan@r...> of "Mon, 27 Jan 2003 07:29:37 EST." <200301271242.HAA04624@m...>
• Sender: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@f...>

> Uche Ogbuji scripsit:

> > I'm certainly not going to put myself through a model 
> > as complex as that of TM,.  I just can't find that it's demonstrably 
> > necessary.  
> 
> I agree.  But I think RDF needs to adopt certain TM insights.

Quite fair.  Just to be clear that my reactions aren't pure technological, ah, 
mulishness, I have long advocated that RDF adopt the idea of scopes from TM.  
TM is fundamentally very sound, from what I can gather, but I also gather that 
in many ways it's overkill.

There's another feature of TM I've thought RDF should pick up, but I forget it 
now.

Also, I think that owl:sameIndividualAs might have been inspired by TM, since 
the last time I remember discussion of standard assertion of the equivalence 
of individuals, the key players were not keen on the idea.


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