Re: SemWeb Non-Starter -- Distributed URI Discovery

Miles, AJ (Alistair) wrote:

>>Yes, that's wat WWW does.  Why ask SW to do it a different way?  If a
>>resource owner wants to make available an RDF representation of his
>>resource, he is welcome to do so.  WWW already supports that.  But if
>>his failure to do so has any impact on your life at all, you have the
>>wrong expectations about what SW is.
>>
>>Even WWW doesn't break if the "owner" of a resource fails to make a
>>representation available, the site is down for a period of time, never
>>registered in DNS, or whatever.
>>
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>... right but, HTTP still provides a generic mechanism for retrieving an 'authoritative' representation of a resource (i.e. HTTP GET) - whether the resource exists or not does not diminish the requirement for such a mechanism.
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>So the semantic web requires some generic mechanism whereby an agent can attempt to locate and query a set of RDF statements about the resource denoted by URI x that has been endorsed by some entity y - whether such statements exist or not similarly does not diminish the requirement.  N.B. In the most common scenario, y is the owner of x.  
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>Cheers,
>
>Al.
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My2C:

while i think that controlling the DNS associated to a URL might be a 
good opportunity to define an "authoritative" answer, this is really not 
the "semantic web".
On the sw everyone can say anything about anyone so that mechnism is 
just a small brick.

If you want a system where you can find all that (participating) people 
have said about a given uri, you might want to take a look at the 
RDFGrowth P2P algorithm,

Giovanni

Received on Friday, 1 April 2005 23:03:14 UTC