Re: Documents, Cars, Hills, and Valleys

[Dropping www-rdf-interest and adding www-archive since this is an innane
avenue of discussion.]

> Yes, of course you can represent the bits in RDF.  My
> question was what will you *name* them?  If
> http://www.mnot.net is your name, then what name
> do you give the bits? urn:md5:12a173b... ?

Since the representation is bound to change over time (and as you're
blithely ignoring content negotiation etc.), you can't use
http://www.mnot.net/ to identify the bits. You can only do something like
that when you're sure that the representation is fixed - and even then you
must be sure to point out that you're identifying in the representation and
not the resource to which is has a one-to-one correspondence.

It's quite easy to point to the bits in RDF. All you do is use some
properties:-

[ :theBitsAt <http://www.mnot.net/>;
  :date "2002-04-11T12-33-30";
  :contentType "text/html" ] .

Simple. Or you can use a hash as you pointed out (in fact, you can add that
to the mess of properties above).

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Sean B. Palmer
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