- From: Tom Baker <tbaker@tbaker.de>
- Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 17:02:56 -0400
- To: Antoine Isaac <aisaac@few.vu.nl>
- Cc: public-xg-lld@w3.org
On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 09:13:33PM +0200, Antoine Isaac wrote: > >In the revised sentence [1], you write: > > > > By curating and maintaining datasets as truly linkable objects... > > > >The datasets themselves are linkable, of course, but isn't the point here about > >the "items in" datasets? Alternatively, it could perhaps be written: > > > > By curating and maintaining datasets of truly linkable objects... > > > >Tom > > > >[1] http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/lld/wiki/index.php?title=Draft_recommendations_page_take2&diff=6309&oldid=6293 > > What I meant was to say that the librarians should *view* the objects in the > datasets they curate as truly linkable resources, when they curate them. I.e, > also change their methodology (though I've always argue that when tellind > that a book is about "Paris", librarians do not only think of a string, they > also have the actual city in mind...). > > So there was a bit more than your proposal. But if that's still unclear, I > won't fight for it long :-) I understand your point, but the way it is written, it doesn't actually say that the _objects_ in the datasets are viewed as truly linkable resources, it says that the _datasets themselves_ are linkable. That's not untrue, but it misses the point about the _objects_ being linkable... Tom -- Tom Baker <tom@tombaker.org>
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