Re: Provenance as a first-class citizen

> > If
> > you just point to the original, without copying the content, you don't
> > need more than triples, and you don't need reification.
> 
> Even if you're simply referencing the original, my issue is that the  
> assertions contained within are implicitly trusted, and not attributed.

So if I say in RDF (on web page X) that some other RDF web page (Y)
contains the keyword "dog", then you think you can conclude that I
believe everything Y says?   

Why do you want to refer to other pages?  Maybe you want to say "I read
that page" or, "That page has some information which I believe" or
maybe, "I recommend everyone read that page", etc.  Some of these kinds
of statements (like the middle one) do imply trust, but certainly not
all of them.

   -- sandro

Received on Friday, 17 March 2006 22:54:26 UTC