Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

When owl:sameAs isn’t the Same Redux: Towards a Theory of Identity, Context, and Inference on the Semantic Web

  • Conference paper
  • First Online:
Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT 2015)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNAI,volume 9405))

Abstract

The Web changes knowledge representation in a number of surprising ways, and decentralized knowledge representation systems such as the Semantic Web will require a theory of identity for the Web beyond current use of sameAs links between various data-sets, including the fact that entities can not be linked across semantic roles. We empirically analyze the behavior of identity and inference on the Semantic Web currently in order to analyze the size of the problem. Lastly, some of the problem due to identity statements operating over different domains of discourse, and propose a modest extension to RDF (RDFC, or RDF with Contexts) that can formally distinguish different contexts in RDF, including contexts for identity statements.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution
Chapter
USD 29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD 39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

Notes

  1. 1.

    http://www.slideshare.net/PatHayes/rdf-with-contexts.

  2. 2.

    http://www.slideshare.net/baojie_iowa/2010-0624-rdfcontext.

References

  1. Andrews, P.: An Introduction to Mathematical Logic and Type Theory: To Truth Through Proof. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht (2002)

    Book  MATH  Google Scholar 

  2. Bouquet, P., Giunchiglia, F., van Harmelen, F., Serafini, L., Stuckenschmidt, H.: C-OWL: contextualizing ontologies. In: Fensel, D., Sycara, K., Mylopoulos, J. (eds.) ISWC 2003. LNCS, vol. 2870, pp. 164–179. Springer, Heidelberg (2003)

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  3. Brachman, R.: What IS-A is and isn’t: an analysis of taxonomic links in semantic networks. IEEE Comput. 16(10), 30–36 (1983)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  4. Delugach, H.: ISO Common Logic. Standard, ISO (2007). http://cl.tamu.edu/. Accessed 8 Mar 2008

  5. Ding, L., Shinavier, J., Shangguan, Z., McGuinness, D.L.: SameAs networks and beyond: analyzing deployment status and implications of owl:sameAs in linked data. In: Patel-Schneider, P.F., Pan, Y., Hitzler, P., Mika, P., Zhang, L., Pan, J.Z., Horrocks, I., Glimm, B. (eds.) ISWC 2010, Part I. LNCS, vol. 6496, pp. 145–160. Springer, Heidelberg (2010)

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  6. Frege, G.: Sense and reference. Philos. Rev. 57, 209–230 (1948)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  7. Guarino, N., Welty, C.: Ontological analysis of taxonomic relationships. Data Knowl. Eng. 39, 51–74 (2000)

    MATH  Google Scholar 

  8. Halpin, H., Hayes, P.J., McCusker, J.P., McGuinness, D.L., Thompson, H.S.: When owl:sameAs isn’t the same: an analysis of identity in linked data. In: Patel-Schneider, P.F., Pan, Y., Hitzler, P., Mika, P., Zhang, L., Pan, J.Z., Horrocks, I., Glimm, B. (eds.) ISWC 2010, Part I. LNCS, vol. 6496, pp. 305–320. Springer, Heidelberg (2010)

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  9. Hayes, P.: RDF Semantics. Recommendation, W3C (2004). http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-mt/. Accessed 21 Sept 2008

  10. Motik, B., Patel-Schneider, P.F., Cuenca Grau, B.: OWL 2 Web Ontology Language: Direct Semantics (2009)

    Google Scholar 

  11. Patel-Schneider, P.F., Hayes, P., Horrocks, I.: OWL Web Ontology Language: Semantics and Abstract Syntax (2004)

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. W3C/MIT, 32 Vassar Street, Room 32-G515, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA

    Harry Halpin

  2. Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, 40 South Alcaniz Street, Pensacola, FL, 32502, USA

    Patrick J. Hayes

  3. School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB, UK

    Henry S. Thompson

Authors
  1. Harry Halpin
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Patrick J. Hayes
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Henry S. Thompson
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Harry Halpin .

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Computer Science, Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark

    Henning Christiansen

  2. ENS-Pavillon Jardin, CNRS-Institut Jean-Nicod, Paris, France

    Isidora Stojanovic

  3. Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus, Aglantzia, Cyprus

    George A. Papadopoulos

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2015 Springer International Publishing Switzerland

About this paper

Cite this paper

Halpin, H., Hayes, P.J., Thompson, H.S. (2015). When owl:sameAs isn’t the Same Redux: Towards a Theory of Identity, Context, and Inference on the Semantic Web. In: Christiansen, H., Stojanovic, I., Papadopoulos, G. (eds) Modeling and Using Context. CONTEXT 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9405. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25591-0_4

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25591-0_4

  • Published:

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Cham

  • Print ISBN: 978-3-319-25590-3

  • Online ISBN: 978-3-319-25591-0

  • eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation