- From: pat hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 19:17:11 -0500
- To: Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org>
- Cc: public-sw-meaning@w3.org
>Le mardi, 23 sep 2003, à 00:02 America/Montreal, pat hayes a écrit : >>Well, the OWNER of a URI is I guess free to say >>anything they like using it, including change >>their mind about its meaning. I agree that if >>this happens a lot, things will get confusing. >>But in the absence of some kind of totalitarian >>control over Web usage, I see no way to >>guarantee that this can never happen. > >or maybe domain name should not be part of URIs. >Maybe it should not rely on that, but on >something like urn only. >Right now when a book is written it has its own unique ISBN, > - Why an international system like that >could no exist for the Semantic Web? Well, think about what it would mean. It makes sense to catalog all the books ever published, and maybe all the people who ever lived. What else can an ontology be about? Let me see, there are all the stars, and all the hairstyles, and all the sodium atoms, and all the noses, and all the trees, and all the left feet... in fact, an ontology can be about ANYTHING, right? Just as a Web page can be. How can one set up a universal WW naming system for everything? How would it be organized? Dewey Decimal, maybe? Or using the classification structure of Roget's thesaurus? And this is just the particular things. We will also need universally agreed names for all the classes and properties that one might want to use... Pat Hayes >-- >Karl Dubost - http://www.w3.org/People/karl/ >W3C Conformance Manager >*** Be Strict To Be Cool *** -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32501 (850)291 0667 cell phayes@ihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes
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