- From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 12:01:40 -0500
- To: Lars Heuer <heuer@semagia.com>
- CC: "public-lod@w3.org" <public-lod@w3.org>
On 11/12/10 11:51 AM, Lars Heuer wrote: > Hi Kingsley, > > [...] >>> An example: >>> <http://www.amazon.com/Identity-Crisis-Brad-Meltzer/dp/1401204589/> >>> returns 200 with no machine-readable data (like RDFa). >> Methinks RDFa is machine readable. The machine simply needs to >> understand RDFa. Thus, if the user agent is committed to RDFa, it should >> be able to interpret RDFa content; giving the content an option to >> clarify matters re. whether an IRI is Name or Address. > Of course RDFa is machine readable. My example was HTML *without* > RDFa. Ah! misread "no machine-readable data (like RDFa).." :-) >>> If I use the >>> identifier today, it has to be interpreted as "I talk about that >>> particular IRI (an HTML document)". >> No, that's only true if you interpret what HTTP is accurately relaying >> to you re. your quest for a Document, as the end of the matter. >> You to HTTP Server: GET me a Document at URL >> HTTP Server: Found it (200 OK) or look somewhere else (30X). > [...] > > I guess you didn't understand the example. Maybe I didn't explain well > enough, though. Misread as per comments above. > [...] >> Again, my response stands. That's the case re. Virtuoso. You are saying: >> I haven't experienced that. Hence my insistence re. Virtuoso. > A product cannot be the answer of the deeper problem. I am not saying a product is the answer to a deeper problem. I am saying, a product exists that demonstrates how a problem can be solved :-) > Anyway, the problem of identifying subjects via IRIs is rather old > (see [1] for one example) and it seems that there is no appealing > solution yet (leaving Topic Maps aside for the moment) It's old, but you can make a statement about an entity in the Amazon data space by just tacking on "#this" to the URL (Address) thereby making it a Name. Then say whatever about it in your linked data space. > [1]<http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/HTTP-URI> > > Best regards, > Lars -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen President& CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen Twitter/Identi.ca: kidehen
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