- From: Tom Baker <tbaker@tbaker.de>
- Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2011 23:05:23 -0400
- To: "ZENG, MARCIA" <mzeng@kent.edu>
- Cc: Tom Baker <tbaker@tbaker.de>, "Young,Jeff (OR)" <jyoung@oclc.org>, Karen Coyle <kcoyle@kcoyle.net>, "public-xg-lld@w3.org" <public-xg-lld@w3.org>
Hey - I like it! :-) Much better than "entity"... On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 10:33:14PM -0400, Marcia Zeng wrote: > Tim Berners-Lee used 'identify things'...[1] :-) > > Marcia > [1] http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html > > On 9/5/11 10:25 PM, "Tom Baker" <tbaker@tbaker.de> wrote: > > >Yeah - won't work... But I share Karen's dislike of "entity". > > > >Tom > > > >On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 09:56:05PM -0400, Jeff Young wrote: > >> An RDF audience will read "individual" as an instance of any type. A > >>library > >> audience will possibly assume "individual" refers to an individual > >>person. > >> God help us. > >> > >> Jeff > >> > >> Tom Baker <tbaker@tbaker.de> wrote: > >> > >> On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 05:30:43PM -0700, Karen Coyle wrote: > >> > so maybe: > >> > > >> > Among these are authority files, whose members identify individual > >> > entities (I don't like that term), and controlled lists of values. > >> > >> Or simply: "whose members identify individuals"? Or does that > >> imply too strongly "individual people"...? > >> > >> > >> > > -- Tom Baker <tom@tombaker.org>
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