Re: NIR SIDETRACK Re: Change Proposal for HttpRange-14

On 4/1/12 11:42 AM, Kingsley Idehen wrote:
> On 4/1/12 4:35 AM, Michael Brunnbauer wrote:
>> hi all
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 05:53:03PM +0200, Michael Brunnbauer wrote:
>>> maybe I made an error by assuming that the term IR is inherent in 
>>> the term
>>> representation - by assuming that a NIR cannot have a 
>>> representation, only
>>> descriptions ?
>> No. The whole point about the use of the term IR in HR14 seems to be 
>> to say:
>>
>> Everything that has a representation has a representation that 
>> conveys it's
>> essential characteristics.
>>
>> Is this important ? If yes, should we write it this way ?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Michael Brunnbauer
>>
>
> Aren't we somehow losing the fundamental fact that all resources on 
> the Web are supposed to be bear self-describing content, constrained 
> by mime type. That when all is said and done, irrespective of mime 
> type, all Web resources are Information Resources.
>
> The above gels nicely with the fact that all content bears 
> representation of something the provides information to appropriate 
> systems, courtesy of the mime type component of this content+mime-type 
> composite.
>
> The content of a basic HTML web page, an RDF document, OWL and RDFs 
> documents all bear content that deliver information. Of course, within 
> specific system realms such as RDF, Linked Data, and the Semantic Web, 
> the content represents a more specific kind of information in the form 
> of descriptions and definitions --  at least, in the eyes of systems 
> (clients and servers) for said realms.
>
>

In the post above, I forgot to add this link for reference:  
http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/selfDescribingDocuments.html .

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