Re: [pedantic-web] Re: The OWL Ontology URI

I completely misread this message. Oops. I hope to give it another go...

On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 00:03 -0500, Pat Hayes wrote:
> Dan, I don't think I've got my point across, and its getting lost in  
> all this confusion about information resourceness. Its really a very  
> simple point, and I can make it with a very simple example.  Suppose A  
> is an RDF graph, and B is an RDF/XML file which encodes/is a surface  
> syntax of/represents (choose your favorite terminology) that graph A.  
> And suppose U is a URI which "identifies" B, in the sense that what  
> you get back, when you do an HTTP GET using U, is a  
> 'representation' (in the REST sense) of B with a 200 code attached.  
> That is, the relationship between U and B is exactly like that between  
> the URI of a web page, and the web page itself.
> 
> My point is simply that under these circumstances, we are pretty much  
> obliged by http-range-14, as I understand it, to say that U denotes B;  
> that is, it denotes the thing it HTTP-identifies.  [...]

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