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On 6/30/14 3:25 PM, Gary Berg-Cross
wrote:
A few days ago Monika Rani (Research
scholar at IIIT-ALLAHABA) asked this question on a LinkedIn
group.
Did
Linked Data Kill Ontologies? Cited was a panel
discussion entitled "Does the Semantic Web Need
Ontologies" and David Karger and Abraham Bernstein of
University of Zurich captured
in a
Web 3.0 video a
transcript ia here: http://www.allreadable.com/62faAA3v .
"Sloppy,
scruffy Semantic Web does not need ontologies and that
Ontologies are a luxury and should not hinder open data
publishing and usage."
There has been some small reactive
discussion such as Mitch
DeFelice:"
Nope it just validated the separation of concern. Linked
Data and Ontologies having two different roles. Linked
Data is simple a means of publishing a graph of data,
whereas Ontology is the model that sets context from the
graphed data."
Barry
Zane thought the answer was" Yes and No. The larger job of
the ontologies is to relate inconsistently named things in
the data. Since the governments of the world can't even
agree on exactly what a "ton" is, it is hard to imagine
people supplying data to be consistent with other people
supplying data. The best we can hope for is that each data
dataset has an internally consistent (possibly implied!)
ontology that a connecting ontology can be layered on. "
I
thought that the Ontolog community might have more
thoughts on theis issue since both ontology and LPD is
spoken here.
Those provocative headlines are only useful at events where they are
spouted, typically to drive attendance.
Linked Data benefits immensely from ontologies. I don't know of
anything more obvious than that :-)
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