On Mar 31, 2012, at 11:17 , Jakob Voss wrote:
JFC Morfin wrote:
- Since we have a W3C expert: what is the best document/book to get
a comprehensive and clear (not too massive) documentation on the semantic web?
You surely don't want to know all about semantic web - especially the Ontology stuff with OWL dialects and entailment regimes is far too academic and won't be part of wikidata because of computational complexity anyway. In short, you should be *very sceptical* and cautious every time you stumple upon anything that requires inference rules. Even trivial inference rules such as those based on owl:sameAs and rdf:type can be problematic in practice! The less inference you assume, the better.
Let us avoid the all-to-simplistic view that says Semantic Web == OWL:-)
Indeed, bringing in (OWL) inferencing into the core WD project would be a mistake. From the SW stack, RDF, RDFS, and, on a different note, SPARQL and maybe RDB2RDF should be the technologies having a role in the project, as well and Linked Data patterns in general.
That being said, it is probably good to have the vocabularies being used in WD be properly defined/described. If *somebody else* wants to do inferencing, for example, we should not stand in the way.
Ivan
I can recommend the "Linked Data Patterns" book by Dodds and Davis: http://patterns.dataincubator.org/book/
Indeed. That is a great one, too
Ivan
Jakob
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