At 9:57 AM -0800 2002-11-22, Seth Russell wrote: >Danny Ayers wrote: > >>>>What about graphs that are not encoded by documents with URIs? >>>> >>>> >>>Ok, take for example the graph of all RSS items that contain the key >>>word phrases "Star Trek", "uiversal translator", and "GroupFormingHere". >>> Granted there is no particular document that encodes that graph at >>>2:15 AM on 11/22/2002. But it is still our intention to find this graph >>>and give it a URI so we can talk about it, right? Is that your >>>question? >>> Similar. I was actually thinking more along the lines of "some RDF in a local file" or "a graph generated on the fly and sent over the network." Neither of those have convenient URIs. >I think TimBl would say that > <http://somewhere/me.rdf><http://somewhere/me.rdf> identifies a >document. But a document is not an abstract graph. So if that URI >identifies a document, what URI identifies the actual graph ? My inclination is to say that the resource identified by <http://somewhere/me.rdf> is an abstract graph, and the document is a representation of the resource. I vaguely recall there being an argument against that view, but I can't think of what it would be. -- Dave Menendez - zednenem@psualum.com - http://www.eyrie.org/~zednenem/Received on Saturday, 23 November 2002 00:53:44 GMT
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