- From: David Booth <david@dbooth.org>
- Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 22:45:20 -0400
- To: "W. Orthuber" <orthuber@kfo-zmk.uni-kiel.de>
- Cc: Hugh Glaser <hg@ecs.soton.ac.uk>, semantic-web <semantic-web@w3.org>, Linked Data community <public-lod@w3.org>
On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 17:08 +0100, W. Orthuber wrote: > David, > > >> In short, although semantic web architecture could be designed to permit > >> unrestricted semantic drift, > >>I think it is a better design -- better > >> serving the semantic web community as a whole -- to adopt an > >> architecture that permits the semantics of each URI to be anchored, by > >> use of a URI declaration. > >Absolutement. > Yes, I think also, URIs should be well defined. Up to now I thought they are, but your article shows that URIs (which are not URLs) > have not necessarily an unique definition! Moreover URI should be anchored; the best would be that they contain a link to all their > definition and further bindingly associated information. > > Why not prefer URIs which are (special "defining") URLs, which contain > a link to a file which contains links to all defining > information (unambiguous > information, in multiple languages if wished)? > So the anchor would be at once accessible and there would be exactly > one location for the decisive information. Yes, the preferred way to do that is quite well described in "Cool URIs for the Semantic Web": http://www.w3.org/TR/cooluris > -- David Booth, Ph.D. Cleveland Clinic (contractor) Opinions expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Cleveland Clinic.
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