Re: grounding terms in URI space

which reminds me of
"uri crisis"
http://www.google.com/search?q=uri+crisis&sourceid=firefox&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

I like the idea of using http like in wordnet to identify concepts.
btw: wordnet's uri rep works

http://www.semanticweb.org/library/

cheers
Leo
Es begab sich aber zu der Zeit 11.03.2005 18:30,  da Dan Connolly schrieb:

>
> On Mar 11, 2005, at 8:33 AM, Miles, AJ (Alistair) wrote:
>
>>> 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.
>>
>>
>> Yeah but, can I refer to some document that says:
>>
>> (1) If you use an HTTP URI of the form http://foo#bar to denote a 
>> conceptual resource then the resource denoted by the URI http://foo 
>> should accept HTTP GET requests and provide representations according 
>> to content-types x and y (but not z) that convey information I.
>>
>> (2) If you use an HTTP URI of the form http://foo/bar to denote a 
>> conceptual resource then the resource denoted by http://foo/bar 
>> should redirect HTTP GET requests to another resource that provides 
>> representations according to content-types x and y (but not z) that 
>> convey information I.
>>
>> ... ?  If that's written somewhere (is it?), great, but if it's not 
>> then the 'Quick Guide to Publishing a Thesaurus on the Semantic Web' 
>> is defining (or at least extending) best practice recommendations, 
>> and I think somebody else ought to be doing that first.
>
>
> I'm not terribly concerned who in the Best Practices WG does it, as 
> long as it gets
> done.
>
> And I don't think it's essential to go into the 2 cases above in the 
> "Quick guide...". You already
> say that you should publish an RDF representation of the thesaurus 
> terms; just say that dereferencing
> the terms should yield that RDF representation. If you want something 
> to point
> to, use webarch:
>
> " A URI owner SHOULD provide representations of the resource it 
> identifies"
> http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/#pr-describe-resource
>
>

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