title: Using UUID as OWL Jena individuals node ids
body: <p>When modeling data in OWL (Ontology Web Language) we can have two types of individuals (elements that belong to a particular class). One of then is unique and the other is a metadata.</p>
  
  <p>For example i can say that: A individual from a class "University" is related by the object property "hasDepartment" with an individual of the class "Department".</p>
  
  <p>"Oxford" hasDepartment "MathDepartment". Now i can talk about the unique Department, the one that belongs to that unique University or i can be referring that Oxford possesses a MathDepartment that other Universities can also possess and it is not the unique Oxford Math Department.</p>
  
  <p>The issue is that in the unique case of the MathDepartment individual we will need a unique NodeID. While Oxford University is unique by default. </p>
  
  <p>My question is:</p>
  
  <p>Is there any bad side effect when using a universally unique identifier (UUID) as individual Node IDs? </p>