- From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2012 15:34:24 -0400
- To: public-lod@w3.org
- Message-ID: <4F78ADC0.3060005@openlinksw.com>
On 4/1/12 12:31 PM, Michael Brunnbauer wrote: > Hello Kingsley, > >>> Everything that has a representation has a representation that conveys it's >>> essential characteristics. > [...] >> 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. > Your last sentence is what my sentence above says. In > http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/uddp-20120229/, an IR is defined as something > that has a representation that conveys the essential characteristics of it. > > We can get rid of the term information resource by putting something like the > above statement about representations in the papers - if I am not the only > one who thinks that things are easier to understand this way :-) Yes, but in the context of RDF a triple can be seen as conveying information about the referent of a URI. This information can take the form of a description or a more specific definition. Resources always bear 'information' the question ultimately boils down to what kind of information, subject to the Web system (dimension or aspect) in question :-) > > Regards, > > Michael Brunnbauer > -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen Founder& CEO OpenLink Software Company Web: http://www.openlinksw.com Personal Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen Twitter/Identi.ca handle: @kidehen Google+ Profile: https://plus.google.com/112399767740508618350/about LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/kidehen
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