Re: Diagram of it all

On Fri, 2011-03-04 at 20:52 -0500, Jonathan Rees wrote:
> Did you spot the contradiction, in one of your diagrams, to my axioms?
> In my little world, if a resource has only one representation, then
> much of what you say about the representation has to also be true of
> the resource - for example, whether its content contains the letter
> 'x'. This rules out the resource being an RDF graph, and the
> representation being a serialization of it, since for any
> serialization, there are almost certainly characters that occur in it,
> but not in the graph.  (You could probably carefully construct a graph
> and a serialization of it that contained the same letters, but then I
> would pick a different metadata property, and go through the argument
> again.)

Hold on.  Your axioms put simple-IRs in the same category as IRs -- not
the same category as representations.  You can't compare graphs with
serializations.  They're in different categories.

David

> 
> This shows that TimBL's intuition that RDF graphs mustn't be
> information resources follows logically from a strong stance on
> metadata generation and interpretation. Without a connection as strong
> as this, I'm not sure that the httpRange-14 rule is worth the trouble,
> since theories weaker than this have no "teeth" and are not good for
> much.  I wish I were wrong, but I don't think I am.
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Nathan <nathan@webr3.org> wrote:
> >
> > inspired by jonathan's last diagram - attached, and uploaded here:
> >
> >   http://i.imgur.com/gzIf0.jpg
> >
> 
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