- From: Dickinson, Ian J <Ian_J_Dickinson@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 15:12:43 -0000
- To: "'Dan Brickley'" <danbri@w3.org>
- Cc: www-rdf-logic@w3.org
Dan, From: Dan Brickley [mailto:danbri@w3.org] > The thing to clean up first is the general notion of URI > naming on the Web Maybe we should get everyone to drive on the same side of the road while we're at it? :-) Seriously, while I can see the point you're making, isn't it the case that the web is always going to be messy? It seems to me that the web is unlikely ever to reach a state of rectitude according to clean theoretical principles, so tying success to that state could hold a lot of good work up. A further point is that ontologies have many more uses than for reasoning about web resources. Indeed wasn't DAML born from a desire in the DARPA agent research community for a common language for agents to advertise and discover capabilities? So could there, in principle, be a version of RDF (or something like it) that had a clear meaning as the basis for ontology designers, and a messy or less-than-perfect match to the "meaning" of the web? Cheers, Ian _______________________________________________________________________ Ian J. Dickinson HP Labs, Bristol, UK mailto:Ian_Dickinson@hp.com
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