Re: Squaring the HTTP-range-14 circle

On 13 Jun 2011, at 20:51, David Booth wrote:
>> <http://richard.cyganiak.de/>
>>    a foaf:Document;
>>    dc:title "Richard Cyganiak's homepage";
>>    a foaf:Person;
>>    foaf:name "Richard Cyganiak";
>>    owl:sameAs <http://twitter.com/cygri>;
>>    .
> 
> That should be fine for applications that do not need to distinguish
> between foaf:Documents and foaf:Persons . . . which is a large class of
> applications.  OTOH, there *are* applications that need to distinguish
> between foaf:Documents and foaf:Persons.  *Those* applications will need
> to apply disambiguation techniques, and some of their owners will
> (wrongly) blame you for the perceived "extra" work it causes them --
> "extra" only because they happen to be implementing a different class of
> application than your data best supports.

Yes, good analysis.

Best,
Richard

Received on Tuesday, 14 June 2011 08:49:49 UTC