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Re: Example for consideration: Resource versus Representation

From: Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:28:01 -0500
Cc: Jonathan Rees <jar@creativecommons.org>, public-awwsw@w3.org
Message-Id: <C7735F76-2F29-439E-A890-758C22A090C8@gmail.com>
To: Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk> 

On Jan 23, 2008, at 12:31 PM, Henry S. Thompson wrote:
> but English doesn't allow us to ask "What is the resource of 'http://www.w3.org/'? 
> "

English seems to have prevailed and done just fine posing the  
question. I have been asking the same question recently. To the extent  
that a resource is a thing, shouldn't we be able to say what thing it  
is? In too many cases I find that there is no articulate answer to  
such questions.

-Alan
Received on Thursday, 24 January 2008 05:28:10 UTC

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