- From: Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 22:21:56 +0900
- To: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Cc: Bernard Vatant <bernard.vatant@mondeca.com>, Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>
Le 7 août 06 à 22:03, Dan Connolly a écrit : >> Just a few dozen terms, yes. But with semantics not so "static" as >> you >> would like them to be. geo:Region is not rdfs:subClassOf - The real >> world apologizes for being so messy, changing and unstable :-) . > > It's reasonably straightforward to change the contents of a static > file on a web server, no? Maybe Bernard Vatant wants to express that geography nomenclature is changing but not necessary references in published materials or even in social context. For example two cities being grouped in one and then one of them is losing its name and its legal existence, but for history papers still exist, etc. Geography is social, very social, there has been a very interesting paper about that Françoise Zonabend Pourquoi Nommer ? in L'identité by Claude Lévi-Strauss. It has been republished in [[[ Play on names. How people is named in Minot. -- Through historical and sociological analysis of the way people is named (surnames, Christian names, nicknames) in a village of North Burgundy, and its relationship with the way places are called, it appears that toponymic and individual appellations belong to one and only system, and that spacial and nominal categories present a similarity. Both of the fields seem to have been arranged by the same organizing thought. Toponymy and patronymy constitute two languages reflecting one another. It exists a continuity between nominated space and denominated society. Beyond, it is all the problem of the relations between anthroponymic system and identity which is set here. ]]] -- Jeux de noms http://etudesrurales.revues.org/document716.html Mon, 07 Aug 2006 13:19:46 GMT But Maybe Bernard is talking about something else -- Karl Dubost - http://www.w3.org/People/karl/ W3C Conformance Manager, QA Activity Lead QA Weblog - http://www.w3.org/QA/ *** Be Strict To Be Cool ***
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