- From: Seth Russell <seth@robustai.net>
- Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 08:57:13 -0700
- To: Bob MacGregor <macgregor@ISI.EDU>
- CC: Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>, "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>, www-rdf-interest@w3.org
Bob MacGregor wrote: > If I understand Sandro's position correctly, then if I use a URI > foo:bar (when oh when are we going to finally add qnames to RDF?), > I'm committed to "believing" all of the information > stored in the corresponding document. If I understand Sandro's concern correctly, I doubt we will be able to get there from here. The very nature of a semantic web is that everything is connected, everything relies on the rest of the network to establish it's meaning. The problem is complicated further because RDF theory does not seem to recognize any boundaries. But there may be a solution: Why not say that when one graph points to a node in another graph it commits only to the *identity* of the node? This would work like that famous scene in When Harry Met Sally where the lady at the restaurant said "I'll have what she is having". Seth Russell http://radio.weblogs.com/0113759/
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