Re: [ontology-summit] URIs for quantities, units and scales

["John F. Sowa" <sowa@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

David,    (01)

URIs aren't magic.  People have relied on paper to transmit
and agree on meaning for many, many centuries.  Putting a pail
of garbage at the end of a URI rainbow won't make it gold.    (02)

DL> I suggest that creating a self-consistent ontology will take
 > time, but assigning URIs to quantities, units and scales will
 > bring an immediate benefit. The URIs can be used without an
 > ontology within existing data models.    (03)

If you don't do your homework in defining the meaning of any
symbols at the end of that URI rainbow, it'll just be garbage.
The GIGO principle for computer systems has not been repealed
by the Semantic Web.    (04)

John    (05)





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