This is a great discussion ... would each contributor be OK with the discussion to date being sent to something public so it is on the record? Like
semantic-web@w3.org ? And would someone like to compile a "Story so far". (travelling and unable to really say all I want to say at this point but the web of multiple overlapping communities of scale-free distribution is key to understanding why this works for finite effort. See "total cost of ontologies" in
http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Fractal.html and in
http://www.w3.org/2005/Talks/1110-iswc-tbl/ slide 11 So multiple URIs for the same thing is life, a constant tradeoff, but life is, on balance good. But we need different systems for people, as for books as fro proteins because socially the situations are so different. And web science is about designing tech in the context of the social system you have or you plan.)
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