I've been trying to find a reference to an issue that I read about a few weeks ago and now can't remember where I saw it. The situation goes like this: Suppose we want to represent a real world object with a URL. We put a web page at that URL describing the object. Now, when we make statements in RDF (or DAML, or OWL) with that URL as the subject or object, there is a potential confustion about whether the statement is about the web page or about the object that the web page describes. For instance: if a web page describes a particular copy of "War and Peace" and we have an RDF statement that the author of "http://www.mybook.net/WarAndPeace.html" is "Leo Tolstoy", does that mean that he wrote the book, or the web page? This is apparently a topic that has received thorough discussion, and even has a name, so I don't want to talk about it here. I'm just hoping someone can point me to a paper or something that covers this topic.Or just the name of the topic would be enough to start with. Thanks, Steven Gollery sgollery@cadrc.calpoly.eduReceived on Monday, 2 June 2003 12:34:00 GMT
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