- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 08:02:37 -0500
- To: Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de>
- Cc: public-rdf-wg WG <public-rdf-wg@w3.org>
On Oct 13, 2011, at 6:27 AM, Richard Cyganiak wrote: > On 13 Oct 2011, at 05:31, Pat Hayes wrote: >> REST defines a resource as a function from times to representations. > > Well, no, REST defines a resource as a a time-varying function from requests to representations. You are right, my bad. > >> So, a g-box is a resource whose representations are (a recognized interchange syntactic form of) g-snaps, ie RDF graphs. > > That works. > >> IRI----HTTP/"identifies" ---- g-box >> IRI----denotes/names-----g-snap > > That seems wrong. “Identifies” and “denotes” are distinct mechanisms, but it has always been the goal to align them wherever possible. It has? Says who? I have been asking for a clear statement of this for years and havnt seen it yet. > The phrasing above seems to explicitly require that they are different – a URI “identifies” one thing but “denotes” another. That's bad. It had better not be bad, because its more often the case than not. Most things in the universe (that can be denoted) cannot be "identified" in this sense. All the same, we use IRIs to refer to them (cf Dbpedia). Pat > > Best, > Richard > ------------------------------------------------------------ IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32502 (850)291 0667 mobile phayesAT-SIGNihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes
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