- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 17:38:33 -0400
- To: "Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@comcast.net>
- Cc: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
* Thomas B. Passin <tpassin@comcast.net> [2004-09-20 17:28-0400] > > Harry Halpin wrote: > > > >Also, as regards Passim's predicates: > >1) subjectIsTheThingReturnedByThisURI > >2) theDocumentAtThisUriDescribesTheSubject > >3) theDocumentAtThisUriIsAboutTheSubject > > > >I would replace "Document" with "Representation", and I'm not sure > >about this "About" versus "Describes" distinction. Seems unclear. > > > "About" as I used it here means the main subject of the web page (or > other retrievable) resource. An example would be an encyclopedia > article about water. The purpose of the page is related to the subject > (here, water), and is not intended to explain the use of any URI > identifier for water, such as http://www.example.com/water. > This sounds similar to what we have in FOAF; foaf:topic and foaf:primaryTopic. Details (such as they are) in http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/ Idea is a relationship between a Document and a thing that that doc is about. In the primaryTopic case, _the_ thing that the doc is primarily about. In general, given the shiftiness of the notion of 'aboutness' I suspect it might be best to defer to documents' own claims re what they're about. But that's orthogonal I suspect... Dan
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