Re: geo location tutorial cut

I honestly think this is one of those "how many angels on the head of a 
pin" discussions.  To the great unwashed out there the distinction will 
be lost.  And introducing a new URI scheme seems a heavy weight solution 
for such an esoteric problem.  I sort of like your bnode abstraction 
because it allows the creation of a decent node that I can reference 
throughout a document.  It is way better than the fragment identifier 
approach I was going to take.  I think I will try going that way and see 
where it takes me.

Thanks!

Steven Pemberton wrote:
>
> On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:53:30 +0200, Shane McCarron <shane@aptest.com> 
> wrote:
>
>> One question that has already been posed to me for which I do not 
>> have a good answer:
>>
>> In the examples I point to the dbpedia entry for the Washington 
>> Monument as the definitive *subject* I am describing.  There is also 
>> a Washington Monument web page from the US Government.  Why is that 
>> not a more appropriate subject?  I use a link to it in the examples 
>> so there is something to "click" on.  And if that were the subject 
>> for everything, is there a way to update the markup so that we 
>> wouldn't have to duplicate the URI?
>
> As Mark pointed out, this is a question I recently raised. In short, 
> there is a major difference between a thing and a web page about that 
> thing.
>
> The dc:creator of me is my mother*, but the dc:creator of my web page 
> is me. If you mixed me up with my web page, you would have to conclude 
> that I was my own mother. It's as simple as that.
>
> I went to a talk at XTech by someone creating a search engine for RDF, 
> and he said it was a major headache for them, since their engine was 
> constantly concluding things like "Tim Berners-Lee" and "W3C" were the 
> same thing.
>
> So the approach I am using in the tutorial I am writing is to say:
>
>     <link about="_:WashingtonMonument" rel="foaf:primaryTopicOf"
>               
> href="http://www.dbpedia.org/resource/Washington_Monument" />
>     ...
>     <p about="_:WashingtonMonument"
>            property="geo:lat_long" 
> content="38.8895563,-77.0352546">During our trip ...
>
> and then it doesn't matter if you use the Wikipedia page as referent, 
> or the .gov page, or even both.
>
> My recent proposal to shortcut this is to define a new URI scheme:
>
>     <p about="pto:http://www.dbpedia.org/resource/Washington_Monument"
>            property="geo:lat_long" 
> content="38.8895563,-77.0352546">During our trip ...
>
> (where 'pto' means 'primary topic of').
>
> Steven
> * In passing, I recently met the daughter of an Italian artist who'd 
> had her mother's signature tatooed on her neck.
>

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