- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 12:10:10 -0700
- To: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Cc: public-lod@w3.org
Kingsley, Im not exactly sure what you are saying in all this, but... (read on) On Jun 12, 2011, at 9:49 AM, Kingsley Idehen wrote: > 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. It also has 4. Its actual self, ie the object. In the example above, Obama, the living breathing President of the USA. Not a representation or an address of any kind, not accessible by HTML in any way, not a piece of information. Still, can be referred to by a name, and described by a representation. And this is what the whole discussion is about. Pat > > 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 > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32502 (850)291 0667 mobile phayesAT-SIGNihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes
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