Re: DBpedia as possible project
"Andrew S. Townley" <[email protected]>
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Hi Lars, On 1 Nov 2010, at 10:10 PM, Lars Heuer wrote: > > If I can play guitar and Badminton, am I an instance of guitarist and > Badminton player? > > I think "instance of"/"type of" is one of the most misused statements > at all. Maybe so, but sometimes where it gets "misused" is at or across context boundaries, isn't it? Honestly, this is something that I struggle with from time to time too, but basically, to me at least, instance of/type of just means instance A *may* share or include properties associated with type X. Sometimes, it's handy for things to be a "type" and other times it might not be. Maybe this boils down to strengths/weaknesses of particular mapping tools and/or implementations, but I think that if there was really a hard and fast answer, we wouldn't see it "misused" quite so often. What would you say was "correct" usage? Is it an absolute or a contextually-bound statement? Genuinely interested in your thoughts on this. Cheers, ast -- Andrew S. Townley <[email protected]> http://atownley.org