Re: ISSUE-148: RDF Concepts - IRIs do *not* always denote the same resource

On 12/14/2013 01:53 PM, Pat Hayes wrote:
> Possible wording compromise....
>
> On Dec 14, 2013, at 8:26 AM, David Booth <david@dbooth.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi Markus,
>>
>> On 12/14/2013 07:04 AM, Markus Lanthaler wrote:
>>> David,
>>>
>>> On Saturday, December 14, 2013 4:12 AM, David Booth wrote:
>>>> . . .   But to later *explicitly* claim that "IRIs
>>>> have global scope: Two different appearances of an IRI denote the
>>>> same resource" seems too harmfully misleading to me.
>>>
>>> What if we would spell out some consequences of IRIs that denote multiple things. Something like
>>>
>>>    1.3 The Referent of an IRI
>>>
>>>    [...]
>>>
>>>    Guidelines for determining the referent of an IRI are provided in other
>>>    documents, like Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One [WEBARCH]
>>>    and Cool URIs for the Semantic Web [COOLURIS]. A very brief, informal and
>>>    partial account follows:
>>>
>>>    • IRIs have global scope by design. Thus, two different appearances
>>>      of an IRI denote the same resource. Violations of this principle may
>>>      lead to interoperability problems or inconsistencies when, e.g.,
>>>      using data from multiple sources.
>>>
>>> Would that address your concerns?
>>
>> That comes *very* close to addressing my concerns.  A slight tweak to the bullet item would do it:
>>
>>    • IRIs have global scope by design. Thus, two different appearances
>>      of an IRI are intended to denote the same resource. Violations
>>      of this principle may lead to interoperability problems or
>>      inconsistencies when, e.g., using data from multiple sources.
>
>>> IRIs have global scope by design. Thus, two different appearances
>>>      of an IRI should denote the same resource.  <etc.>
>
> Pat
>
> PS it even works if you put it in upper case.

Yes, I think that would be fine, either upper or lower case.  Probably 
lower case would be best though, to maintain the tone of an informal 
introduction.

David

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