- From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
- Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 23:22:26 -0500
- To: "Booth, David (HP Software - Boston)" <dbooth@hp.com>
- Cc: "Williams, Stuart (HP Labs, Bristol)" <skw@hp.com>, noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com, TAG mailing list <www-tag@w3.org>
Booth, David (HP Software - Boston) scripsit: > The URI http://t-d-b.org?http://dbooth.org/2005/dbooth/ names me, David > Booth. Since I am not an information resource according to the WebArch > definition, :) if you dereference that URI you will get a 303 See Other > response redirecting you to http://dbooth.org/2005/dbooth/ (in > accordance with the TAG's httpRange-14 decision). Dereferencing that > second URI yields a description of me and a definition of > http://t-d-b.org?http://dbooth.org/2005/dbooth/ as a name for me. Excellent! Using textually distinguishable URIs allows RDF users to make the Topic Maps distinction between subject identifiers (which begin "http://t-d-b.org?") and resource identifiers (which don't) without needing to interact with the Internet. I would urge you to add the following text to the document at http://dbooth.org/2005/dbooth : David Booth intends the URIs http://thing-described-by.org/?http://dbooth.org/2005/dbooth/ and http://t-d-b.org/?http://dbooth.org/2005/dbooth/ to be published subject identifiers for David Booth. The phrase "published subject identifiers" can be linked to http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tm-pubsubj/docs/recommendations/general_pld.htm . > So for non-information resources, it is not the resource itself that is > self describing, because there is no path from the non-information > resource (me) to the information resource that describes me. There is > only a path from my *URI* to information that describes what that URI > means. I.e., it is the *URI* that is self-describing -- not the > resource. In a larger sense you are self-describing, though; you have published a description of yourself and are pointing to it by means of your email. -- Samuel Johnson on playing the violin: John Cowan "Difficult do you call it, Sir? cowan@ccil.org I wish it were impossible." http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
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