- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 07:56:17 -0400
- To: "Miles, AJ (Alistair) " <A.J.Miles@rl.ac.uk>
- Cc: "'public-esw-thes@w3.org'" <public-esw-thes@w3.org>
* Miles, AJ (Alistair) <A.J.Miles@rl.ac.uk> [2004-09-30 12:52+0100] > > I have this question: > > Can a real world thing be a 'resource' in an RDF graph? Yep. http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-mt/#glossResource [[ Resource (n.)(as used in RDF)(i) An entity; anything in the universe. (ii) As a class name: the class of everything; the most inclusive category possible. ]] also http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-mt/#urisandlit and nearby They're not literally "in" the RDF graph, of course. Rather, they're described by the graph, when we interpret that graph as carry a set of statements about a (or the) world. Dan
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