- From: Sean B. Palmer <sean@mysterylights.com>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 15:09:09 +0100
- To: <Patrick.Stickler@nokia.com>, <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
- Cc: <Ora.Lassila@nokia.com>
> Yes, there is definite overlap in my thinking on HRNs and > the tag URI scheme, [...] Except that tags are unique throughout space and time, and HRNs are only unique troughout space? If you added some sort of time field to an HRN, then you'd have a tag, more or less. One of the primary facets of discussion pertaining to tags when they were first announced was the decision that they should take an entire URI scheme rather than be a specific type of URN... > The key point here is that (a) we use URNs rather than > URLs to identify namespaces and abstract resources, [...] Maybe, but note that this is only a "problem" where there is an overlap in the very concept of what a namespace "is". RDF treats it differently because it concatenates names onto the end to from a URI/URI-Reference... there's no problem at all to other RDF applications where a URI for a term is specified somwhere, even if this URI is also a URL. For example, the XSD specification tell you what URI to use to identify the terms within its namespace; no problem. -- Kindest Regards, Sean B. Palmer @prefix : <http://webns.net/roughterms/> . :Sean :hasHomepage <http://purl.org/net/sbp/> .
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