Re: Linked Media: Weaving non-textual content into the semantic web

On Tue, 10 Mar 2009, Raphaël Troncy wrote:

> Dear Conrad,
>
>> The distinction between use of a fragment or a query introduces
>> different retrieval protocols. This is a technical distinction and has
>> little to do with semantic purpose such as user context.
>
> Well, not exactly. The query creates a *new* resource that is unrelated to 
> the original resource, i.e., you can't tell that 
> http://www.example.org/myVideo.ogg?t=15,45 is unrelated to 
> http://www.example.org/myVideo.ogg. You don't have this problem with the 
> fragment.

Plus, consider that a server returning the same content for both URIs 
above is a configuration choice, quite common now but perhaps not some 
time in the future (like when a security warning say that you have to 
reject every URI with query parameters on resources not handling them ;) )
So you can't even rely on a fallback mechanism to do discovery based on 
the structure of the URI.

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