> > From: Pat Hayes [mailto:phayes@ihmc.us] >> . . . >> That isn't how I read [4]. The kind of usage you describe is not >> 'indirect', since all the identifiers are being used with a single >> referent in mind: "http://jo-lamda.blogspot.com/" denotes a web page >> and "_:aaa" denotes its owner. > >I think what you're trying to elucidate is good, but the sentence above >does not seem quite right. When a single identifier is used with more >than one referent in mind, that would normally be called "ambiguous", >not "indirect". OK, let me re-phrase. In the example using bnodes, there is no case where an identifier which has a 'normal' meaning is being systematically used to refer to something else. The example given in [4] is the use of "Downing Street" to refer to the UK government rather than a London street, even though it of course can also refer to a London street, and in fact this is the basis for this indirect use. But in the RDF I was referring to, no identifier is being overloaded in this way. The intuitive reading of the example has each identifier clearly referring to a single intended referent, and there is nothing which requires any identifier to be re-interpreted or overloaded by anything like the downing-street/government kind of double entendre. So I don't see this kind of example as having anything to do with indirect identification at all. Pat Hayes >[4] WebArch: http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/#indirect-identification > >David Booth -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32502 (850)291 0667 cell phayesAT-SIGNihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayesReceived on Monday, 30 January 2006 23:11:55 GMT
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