Re: tag URIs (was Re: New Intro to RDF)

Sandro Hawke wrote:
> This is very old ground, but can I ask your reason for using tag: URIs
> instead of HTTP URIs?   
 > (snip)
>    Do you want the web's default mechanism at your disposal for fetching
>    information about the identified thing?

For lots of things that I want to assign URIs to, I don't have any 
intention of making a specific http: page available for it.  http: is 
nice for predicates 'n ontologies and when the resource is itself a web 
page, but if I want to assign a URI to my bed (as I did in the article), 
I don't think there's a point to using http:.  Of course in the end it 
doesn't matter, but it is a point of confusion.

And from the pedagogical point of view, I want readers of the article to 
be exposed to http: URIs but to see that http: isn't privileged.

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Received on Thursday, 6 October 2005 12:10:08 UTC