Re: Squaring the HTTP-range-14 circle

On 6/17/11 3:52 PM, Kingsley Idehen wrote:
> On 6/17/11 3:44 PM, Leigh Dodds wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 17 June 2011 15:32, Kingsley Idehen<kidehen@openlinksw.com>  wrote:
>>> On 6/17/11 3:11 PM, Leigh Dodds wrote:
>>>> I just had to go and check whether Amazon reviews and Facebook
>>>> comments actually do have their own pages. That's because I've never
>>>> seen them presented as anything other than objects within another
>>>> container, either in a web page or a mobile app. So I think you could
>>>> argue that when people are "linking" and marking things as useful,
>>>> they're doing that on a more general abstraction, i.e. the "Work" (to
>>>> borrow FRBR terminology) not the particular web page.
>>> You have to apply context to your statement above. Is the context: 
>>> WWW as an
>>> Information space or Data Space?
>> I can't answer that because I don't know what you mean by those terms.
>> It's just a web of resources as far as I'm concerned.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> L.
>>
>
> Links that will help you with terminology.
>
> 1. http://linkeddatabook.com/editions/1.0/ -- Web as Global Data Space
> 2. http://www.xent.com/FoRK-archive/dec00/0608.html -- Web as 
> Information Space (courtesy of quick Google search).
>
>
Leigh,

In addition to the above, and bearing in mind Harry's contribution to 
this conversation, here is one of his presentations in which slide #2 
makes reference to WWW as an Information Space [1].

Links:

1. http://www.ibiblio.org/hhalpin/homepage/presentations/interface/

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