Re: BioRDF: URL Statements

1) Most URIs on the Semantic Web are symbols for things, e.g. a concept or a physical object

2) Things like concepts and objects cannot be 'resolved' through the internet.

3) What current proposals about the 'resolution' of URIs do is trying to force four different things into a single URI: 
a. the symbol for a thing, 
b. the symbol for an information  resource (i.e. a certain ordering of bytes, for example a JPEG picture or an HTML document) and
c. a string (i.e. a URI) that can be used in conjunction with some resolution mechanism in order to yield the information resource

4) Trying to lump ontologically different things into one symbol is bad practice, and leads to a lot of confusion. This confusion can be avoided by clearly distinguishing  a, b and c in our RDF graph.

5) Finding additional RDF statements about a given resource has not much to do with 'resolution', would more accurately be described as making a query. These two things should not be mixed up. SPARQL endpoints are probably the best solution by far.


//Matthias