- From: Nathan <nathan@webr3.org>
- Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 15:00:29 +0000
- To: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- CC: David Booth <david@dbooth.org>, Jiří Procházka <ojirio@gmail.com>, public-lod@w3.org
Kingsley Idehen wrote: > On 11/11/10 9:00 AM, David Booth wrote: >> On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 07:23 +0100, Jiří Procházka wrote: >> [ . . . ] >>> I think it is flawed trying to enforce "URI == 1 thing" >> Exactly right. The "URI == 1 thing" notion is myth #1 in "Resource >> Identity and Semantic Extensions: Making Sense of Ambiguity": >> http://dbooth.org/2010/ambiguity/paper.html#myth1 >> It is a good *goal*, but it is inherently unachievable. > > Are you implying that a URI -- an Identifier -- doesn't have a Referent > (singular)? http://kingsley.idehen.name/dataspace/person/kidehen#this does not name you, it's not a name for you, or the name for you. It's a name (identifier for the purpose of referencing) of "#this, as described by http://kingsley.idehen.name/dataspace/person/kidehen" and how "#this, as described by http://kingsley.idehen.name/dataspace/person/kidehen" is ultimately interpreted to be, depends entirely on context and application. > If so, what is the URI identifying? It's identifying, or referring to, "x, as described by y" and what the description identifies is open to interpretation and context (a human? an agent? a father? a trusted-man? a holder of X? a bearer of Y?). Best, Nathan
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