Re: URI for language identifiers

Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote:
> From: Bill de hÓra <dehora@eircom.net> 
>>In particular, I think the first makes the semantic web slightly 
>>crocked from an engineeering perspective - well and good to for the 
>>RDF MT to say that all URIs must have one denotation in the graph, 
> 
> 
> The RDF semantics (model theory) doesn't say this at all.  As in most model
> theories, the denotation of a name (URI reference) is only fixed in an
> interpretation, and can differ between interpretations.

Yes, good catch.


>>well and good for some to say URIs are owned therefore their 
>>denotations are owned thanks to some axiom or other. But there is a 
>>whole layer of infrastructure to be put into place to assign 
>>interpretations to URIs before safely merging graphs, if Miles is 
>>correct.
> 
> 
> Not only a whole layer of infrastructure, but a whole theory of
> representation to be added to the Semantic Web architecture.

Better catch ;)


Bill de hÓra