- From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 17:49:20 +0100
- To: public-lod@w3.org
On 6/12/11 3:42 PM, Richard Cyganiak wrote: > On 12 Jun 2011, at 11:12, Alan Ruttenberg wrote: >> I've yet to encounter a person who didn't understand the difference between a book about Obama and Obama. > This has nothing to do with books about Obama. > > It's about the difference between an URI-named resource which can return, say, a JSON representation of Obama; and a URI-named resource that *is* Obama. Explaining why using the same URI for both of those supposedly breaks the Web isn't *quite* that easy. > > Best, > Richard > Richard, It isn't about braking the Web or its AWWW, really. It's about how its always been when dealing with data via programs. An Object has: 1. Name 2. Representation Address 3. Actual Representation. I can even articulate this using the much overloaded "Resource" term by saying: courtesy of Linked Data tweak (or evolution) Web Resources now has a: 1. Name 2. Representation Address 3. Actual Representation. Prior to the use of Links for structured data representation a Resource had a: 1. Representation Address 2. Actual Representation. It really is as simple as outlined above. HTTP explicitly includes the ability to negotiate Actual Representation via mime types. -- 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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