RE: Immunity of SW statements to changes in location - data integration use case

I am not sure whether the following issue has already been discussed.
By using the identifiers to also locate where the RDFs statements describing
the resource in question are, don’t we somehow dictate where the document(s)
containing the RDFs statements describing a given resource are to be
located?



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[mailto:public-semweb-lifesci-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Matthias Samwald
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Subject: Re: Immunity of SW statements to changes in location - data
integration use case



> The main discussion at the moment is how much of
> a benefit there is in having a PURL for a specific representation
> such as the web page for P12345, in addition to the PURL for the
> "biothing" P12345.

I think the benefit would be immense. I have seen so much confusion arising
in Semantic Web projects that try to do it the 'smart' way and lump both
together. The slightly increased complexity of the implementation is nothing
compared to the long-term costs caused by this confusion and the associated
barriers to interoperability.

- Matthias

Received on Monday, 16 July 2007 14:04:55 UTC