Re: talking again

On Jun 1, 2005, at 8:34 AM, Steven Pemberton wrote:

>
> On Tue, 31 May 2005 14:19:08 +0200, Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org> wrote:
>> drafting notes:
>>
>> """XHTML2's RDF-based metadata syntax allows document authors to
>> describe
>> properties of many kinds of thing, including relationships to real 
>> world
>> objects that don't have widely known Web identifiers (URIs). Often a
>> document might mention something (eg. a person, place, ...) without 
>> the
>> author having a convenient URI that identifies it. This makes it
>> difficult for different parts of a document to describe the same 
>> thing,
>> without unnecessary repetition. XHTML2's metadata syntax provides a
>> mechanism that allows different pieces of metadata within one document
>> to clearly identify the things they're referring to, even without 
>> URIs:
>> the @@@ and @@@ attributes are used alongside the "rel" attribute to
>> link together pieces of meta information within an XHTML2 document. 
>> They
>> function very similarly to the "about" and "href" attributes, but use
>> identifiers which are strictly local to the document; this avoids any
>> confusion between temporary or ad-hoc identifiers and those which are
>> intended to be long-lasting, world wide identifiers (ie. URIs)."""
>
> I was thinking of wording along the lines of "Not all things that you 
> want to describe have URIs, or you may not know what the URI is, but 
> nonetheless want to record metadata about them. To this end there is a 
> notation for recording a local name for the object you want to talk 
> about, without comitting yourself to a particular URI."

I like Steven's description better :)

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