On May 25, 2011, at 4:58 AM, Graham Klyne wrote: > Stephan Zednik wrote: >>> Personally, I think the term "resource" has a particular meaning within the Web Architecture (as graham put up on the wiki) and it would be nice to use that term with the same meaning. >>> >>> Maybe we need another concept of something that is more general than a resource? >> What about 'Entity'? I agree with the idea that we may want to separate the web concept of resource from the provenance model concept of any thing which can have provenance. > > That term has a more specific meaning in the context of HTTP: > http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec7.html > > #g > -- Thanks. I prefer the following definition from the New Oxford American Dictionary: entity |ˈentitē| noun ( pl. -ties) a thing with distinct and independent existence : church and empire werefused in a single entity. • existence; being : entity and nonentity. I think it would very much be a mistake to use any terminology in the context of HTTP in our conceptual model of provenance. --Stephan
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