Re: grounding terms in URI space

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 16:07:15 -0500, Carl Mattocks  
<carlmattocks@checkmi.com> wrote:

>
> If  http://...schema#term prevents a 404 being generated then we should
> take a firm step  forward and present it as best practice.

Sure, but it doesn't. And getting an ad for web hosting, or other content  
that doesn't illuminate what the term means is about as useful as a 404  
anyway.

It's a social practice of putting something at the URI when you use a URI  
for a term. Which is of course tricky for people who don't have a web  
server to put things at, or not one that they can rely on. I guess that is  
just a phase the world is going through, and we can expect it to pass in a  
decade or so.

But I agree with Dan that having something useful there is a good  
practice. And as he says, it is entirely orthogonal to the # vs / debate.

cheers

Chaals

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Received on Thursday, 10 March 2005 21:33:19 UTC