Re: Immunity of SW statements to changes in location - data integration use case from Eric Jain on 2007-07-16 (public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org from July 2007)

From: Eric Jain <Eric.Jain@isb-sib.ch>
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 12:33:34 +0200
To: Matthias Samwald <samwald@gmx.at>
CC: "M. Scott Marshall" <marshall@science.uva.nl>, Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>, wangxiao@musc.edu, Michel_Dumontier <Michel_Dumontier@carleton.ca>, public-semweb-lifesci <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>, Mark Wilkinson <markw@illuminae.com>, Benjamin Good <goodb@interchange.ubc.ca>, Natalia Villanueva Rosales <naty.vr@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <469B497E.6090802@isb-sib.ch>

Matthias Samwald wrote:
> I think the benefit would be immense. I have seen so much confusion
> arising in Semantic Web projects that try to do it the 'smart' way and
> lump both together. The slightly increased complexity of the
> implementation is nothing compared to the long-term costs caused by this
> confusion and the associated barriers to interoperability.

I'm not advocating any lumping, I'm just skeptical about the need for a 
PURL for each specific representation (each of which already has a URL).

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