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Re: [semanticweb] Purl.org offline?

From: Toby A Inkster <tai@g5n.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:24:48 +0100
Message-Id: <F169BCCD-39EE-4386-A439-36848B87627C@g5n.co.uk>
To: Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>

> Having names for fundamental terms based on the DNS system is a
> weakness. What will we do if purl.org gets taken over by a casino  
> site?
> Will we argue that the terms keep their meaning even if the casino  
> site
> says something else

There is no law that says that if a tool wants to determine the  
meaning of <http://purl.org/dc/terms/title> it must perform an HTTP  
request for that URI, even though that is common practice right now.  
It would be just as valid an approach for it to query a database, or  
to retrieve the meaning from a web service.

http://meaningof.example/?as-of=2008&uri=http://purl.org/dc/terms/title

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Toby A Inkster
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