- From: Michael Hausenblas <michael.hausenblas@deri.org>
- Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 12:14:46 +0100
- To: Christopher Gutteridge <cjg@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Cc: Linked Data community <public-lod@w3.org>
> Do URIs have owners? I don't thing "owner" is the correct term. A > URI has an agent (person, group) who controls what it resolves to, > but I'm not sure you can own an identifier. http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/#uri-assignment Cheers, Michael -- Dr. Michael Hausenblas, Research Fellow LiDRC - Linked Data Research Centre DERI - Digital Enterprise Research Institute NUIG - National University of Ireland, Galway Ireland, Europe Tel. +353 91 495730 http://linkeddata.deri.ie/ http://sw-app.org/about.html On 15 Jun 2011, at 11:58, Christopher Gutteridge wrote: > Picking up on comment by Richard, but forking the thread > > "Would you agree that Facebook are the owners of this URI?" > > Do URIs have owners? I don't thing "owner" is the correct term. A > URI has an agent (person, group) who controls what it resolves to, > but I'm not sure you can own an identifier. > > -- > Christopher Gutteridge -- http://id.ecs.soton.ac.uk/person/1248 > > / Lead Developer, EPrints Project, http://eprints.org/ > / Web Projects Manager, ECS, University of Southampton, http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ > / Webmaster, Web Science Trust, http://www.webscience.org/ > >
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