- From: Laurian Gridinoc <laurian@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 17:57:00 +0100
- To: "Steven Pemberton" <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl>
- Cc: public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org
2008/5/15 Steven Pemberton <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl>: > [...] Another problem that was constantly recurring, he said, was due to the > confusion between a page, and the thing it represented. > > And that set me thinking. Saying stuff about something that doesn't have a > URL is hard, hard in RDFa, hard in RDF, and usually needs blanknodes, which > our grandmothers are never going to understand. > > So, does anyone feel that they have enough energy for us to propose a new > type of URL, the primary topic of: > > pto:http://www.w3.org/ is the W3C > pto:http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee is Tim BL > pto:mailto:timbl@w3.org is also Tim BL > pto:http://rdfa.info/ is RDFa > > and so on. You would never be expected to dereference such a URL, and you > can see that you are talking about a meta subject by inspection, and you can > automatically derive: > > <pto:http://www.w3.org/> foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf <http:www.w3.org/> > > It seems to me that it would be far easier to use than all that "#me" stuff > and all those 303 replies you have to organise to do it right (or is it > 302?). Why not use XRI's cross-context identification [1], to point to http://www.w3.org/ in a context of in which means foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf, something roughly like xri://(http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/isPrimaryTopicOf)/(http://www.w3.org/) [1] http://dev.inames.net/wiki/Why_XRI#.231:_Cross-Context_Identification I know how wrong this could be, but anyway ... -- Laurian Gridinoc, purl.org/net/laur
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