Re: Explaining the benefits of http-range14 (was Re: [HTTP-range-14] Hyperthing: Semantic Web URI Validator (303, 301, 302, 307 and hash URIs) ) from Nathan on 2011-10-20 (public-lod@w3.org from October 2011)

From: Nathan <nathan@webr3.org>
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 12:54:18 +0100
To: Norman Gray <norman@astro.gla.ac.uk>
CC: Dave Reynolds <dave.e.reynolds@gmail.com>, Leigh Dodds <leigh.dodds@talis.com>, "public-lod@w3.org" <public-lod@w3.org>
Message-ID: <4EA00BEA.7060907@webr3.org>

Norman Gray wrote:
> Ugh: 'IR' and 'NIR' are ugly obscurantist terms (though reasonable in their original context).  Wouldn't 'Bytes' and 'Thing', respectively, be better (says he, plaintively)?

Both are misleading, since NIR is the set of all things, and IR is a 
proper subset of NIR, it doesn't make much sense to label it "non 
information resource(s)" when it does indeed contain information 
resources. From that perspective "IR" and "R" makes somewhat more sense.

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