- From: Arthur Ryman <ryman@ca.ibm.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 10:15:30 -0500
- To: public-data-shapes-wg@w3.org
Holger Knublauch <holger@topquadrant.com> wrote on 02/08/2015 05:36:32 PM: > ... I am afraid the distinction > between real-world objects and their representation drifts into > theoretical realms that nobody outside of the RDF world seems to care > about (and rightfully so). Holger, The distinction is important in some cases because if you fail to make the distinction, then when you read the RDF, it sounds like nonsense. The classic example is the distinction between a person and a user account owned by that person. A person is a RWO and should have a URI that is different that the user account, which is an information resource (a web document). A web document can have properties such as creator (a person), creation date, modification date, etc. It makes sense to say that a user account document has a modification date, but it is nonsense to say that the person who owns the user account has that modification date (barring coincidental plastic surgery on that date). FOAF makes this clear. This whole topic is nicely discussed in [1], which is co-authored by your newest colleague. [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/cooluris/
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