- From: Damian Steer <d.steer@bristol.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:44:48 +0000
- To: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- CC: Linked Data community <public-lod@w3.org>
On 27/01/10 12:41, Kingsley Idehen wrote: > Richard Light wrote: >> If you see the URL as representing the subject of discourse (= >> non-information resource), there are also non-RDF representations of >> that subject which can be associated with the URL (and requested using >> the 303 mechanism, by specifying a suitable Accept header). > URLs Identify the Location (Address) of Information Resources (documents > or data containers). Thus, I don't see them as representing the subject > of discourse. I see them as containers of data which may or may not be > structured. Re. Linked Data, they are containers of structured > descriptions, and by virtue of Generic URI abstraction bound to the > Referent Identified by the entire Generic HTTP URI. You seem to be using URL and URI to make a distinction here? To the best of my knowledge there is no difference (although the name 'URI' is preferred). Damian
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