Re: Ed Summers blog post on 'chimera' approach

On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 14:40 +0100, Nathan wrote:
> [ . . . ]

> In this case, when it's describing something that is itself a 
> document/book, the whole thing falls apart (you'd have two authors, two 
> creation dates, etc), which I'm sure you'll agree is a bit of a monster.
> 
> Hence, I have to disagree w/ Ed's "5. If it’s not clear, maybe the 
> vocabulary sucks."
> 
> Thing is though, it is a reasonable proposal in a decent portion of use 
> cases, and combined with the "I won't describe the document" and "I'll 
> refer to the document by some other URI" voices, it does cover a fair 
> majority of the cases, but only in certain domains, and only by having 
> some special rule for metadata that lets you override the norm to say 
> "no it's not a doc, this over here is the doc" (like the CL approach). 
> At web scale though, it's far from an ideal solution, and really doesn't 
> help the worlds Librarians, or the Frankenstein case.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Nathan

+1



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