Re: URI: Name or Network Location?

On Feb 19, 2004, at 11:37, ext Hamish Harvey wrote:

>
>
> On Wednesday 18 Feb 2004 8:26 pm, Benjamin Nowack wrote:
>
>> there are lots of approaches (all with their own advantages and
>> disadvantages) that try to allow you to distinguish between the 
>> described
>> resource, the rdf representation of the description and maybe an 
>> additional
>> human-friendly representation, but at the moment they are still all
>> proprietary..
>
> Have any pointers to these, even just googleable names?

http://sw.nokia.com/uriqa/URIQA.html is one approach.

>
> What do you mean by "proprietary" here? That they aren't "standard", 
> be it de
> facto or de jure? Or that they,
>
>    "protected by trademark or patent or copyright; made or
>            produced or distributed by one having exclusive rights;" 
> (WordNet)?
>

URIQA is open, and freely usable, but not (yet) a standard.

Patrick


> Cheers,
> Hamish
>
>
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Patrick Stickler
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