Re: SemWeb Non-Starter -- Distributed URI Discovery

>
>> > > As far as I can tell, there is no formal, generalized
>> mechanism to
>> > > reliably query the owner of a URI in order to obtain an RDF
>> > > Description of that URI.  And this is a serious impediment to the
>> > > Semantic Web.
>> >
>> > I think this hits the nail on the head.
>>
>> Actually, I think this completely misses the point.  If you must know
>> the owner of the URI to get a description of it, it is NOT
>> the "semantic
>> web".
>>
>> This would be like saying that you have to know the owner of
>> the URI in
>> order to see any links to that URI.  Such an idea would have
>> completely
>> destroyed the WWW as we know it.  Same is true of SW.
>
> ... yeah but, to make the WWW work you have to 'know' how to get an 
> 'authoritative' representation of a resource (implicit in HTTP).  So 
> surely to make SW you need some way of getting (or better, querying) an 
> 'authoritative' RDF description of a resource?
>
> SW certainly needs a way of discovering an RDF datasource that was 'said' 
> by a particular legal entity (i.e. person, organisation etc.) ... and 
> identifying a legal entity will often be done indirectly (i.e. find me a 
> datasource that describes X that was said by the legal entity that owns 
> the domain name Y).
>
Everyone has his/her own choice to describe a resource, anyway. To get a 
so-called 'authoritative' description of a resource, how about if there is a 
mechanism to sign the descriptions (RDF graph)? Consider the Public-Key 
Infrastructure?


Jeremy 

Received on Friday, 1 April 2005 16:40:34 UTC