- From: Jim McCusker <mccusj@rpi.edu>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 09:44:56 -0400
- To: Paolo Missier <Paolo.Missier@ncl.ac.uk>
- Cc: public-prov-wg@w3.org
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 7:44 AM, Paolo Missier <Paolo.Missier@ncl.ac.uk> wrote: > I agree with Khalid, > and at the same time I feel that there is lack of agreement on the use of > terms > - describe > - represents > > which I suspect is ultimately just a matter of terminology rather than of > deep substance. > I suggest that a specific issue on this be raised against the doc, as it > makes it sooo much easier to follow it (at least for me). To me, "describes" and "represents" are pretty clear: A URI can represent something. It, in itself, does not describe anything, since it's just a URI. A document can describe something, but does not represent anything. A URI can potentially represent the document you get when you dereference it, or it could represent the thing that is described when you dereference it. The document can usually clear that up (is that URI a foaf:Document or foaf:Person, for instance?). The question is, is a BOB more like a document, or more like a URI? I had assumed it was more like a document, since people had been discussing how it would "contain" assertions sufficient to identify the entity in question. Jim -- Jim McCusker Programmer Analyst Krauthammer Lab, Pathology Informatics Yale School of Medicine james.mccusker@yale.edu | (203) 785-6330 http://krauthammerlab.med.yale.edu PhD Student Tetherless World Constellation Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute mccusj@cs.rpi.edu http://tw.rpi.edu
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