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First, Does it matter much if agents spread misinformation in an unstructured versus structured format? I can already assert that I am married to Tim Berners-Le
by smadge 9y ago
First, Does it matter much if agents spread misinformation in an unstructured versus structured format? I can already assert that I am married to Tim Berners-Lee. I will do so right now: I am married to Tim Berners-Lee.
I will do so again:
<http://example.com/smadge> <http://schema.org/name> "smadge" .
<http://example.com/smadge> <http://schema.org/spouse> "http://example.com/timbl" .
<http://example.com/smadge> <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type> <http://schema.org/Person> .
I think the maxim "not everything on the internet is true" applies to linked data just as much as unstructured data.
Second, although again I am out of my area of expertise, I think you can make provenance statements about statements using reification in Semantic Web technologies. I don't know if this is a good source but it seems to suggest it's possible [1].
[1] https://wiki.blazegraph.com/wiki/index.php/Reification_Done_Right https://wiki.blazegraph.com/wiki/index.php/Reification_Done_...
- rspeer 9y agoReification is at least part of the solution to provenance, but none of the Semantic Web ontologies you've ever heard of use reification, and there is no upgrade path to make an ontology based on plain un-reified triples use reification. To continue this example: you asserted, in English, "I am married to Tim Berners-Lee". In English, anyone can respond "No you're not". Then you said it again in RDF, in a way that hypothetically a computer system would use to draw conclusions. And there is no way to say "no you're not" in RDF.