- From: Nathan <nathan@webr3.org>
- Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 21:44:18 +0000
- To: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- CC: "public-webid@w3.org" <public-webid@w3.org>
See Also: http://cadse.cs.fiu.edu/corba/corbasec/faq/multi-page/node52.html Quite nicely worded, the first few lines make it's usage within the context of WebID and RWW very clear :) Kingsley Idehen wrote: > All, > > More for reference purposes, since it isn't going into the WebID spec. > > WebDAV Access Control Ext. Spec [1]: > > A "principal" is a distinct human or computational actor that > initiates access to network resources. In this protocol, a > principal is an HTTP resource that represents such an actor. > > Translation: > > A data object that represents a human or computational actor (e.g. > software agent). This representation is achieved as follows: > > 1. data object ID is a resource URL > 2. data object representation is an entity relationship model based > description graph > 3. the graph is comprised of attribute=value pairs that coalesce around > the ID (a de-referencable URI) that denotes the entity represented by > said data object. > > Example: > > 1. http://kingsley.idehen.net/dataspace/person/kidehen -- denotes a data > object resource > 2. http://kingsley.idehen.net/dataspace/person/kidehen#this -- denotes > the real world entity that is the focal point (via attribute=value pair > coalescence) for the description graph. > > Linked Data use the magic of de-reference to make this very cool and > neat since the URI denoting the real world entity resolves to a data > object resource that represents a description of the real world > entity's description. > > Links: > > 1. http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3744 -- WebDAV ACL extensions rfc > 2. http://youtu.be/f-pJlnpkLp0 -- a favorite fun video about pointers > and dereference . >
Received on Tuesday, 20 November 2012 21:45:22 UTC