- From: Jon Hanna <jon@hackcraft.net>
- Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 16:23:44 +0100
- To: semantic-web@w3.org
tim.glover@bt.com wrote: > > Well I don't object to URIs being used to uniquely identify web > resources. But I do object to insisting that URIs are used for > EVERYTHING, including words in a (programming) language. What is gained > by it? And what is lost? > > myuri:One myuri:might myuri:as myuri:well myuri:insist myuri:that > myuri:ordinary myuri:text myuri:uses myuri:URIs myuri:for myuri:every > myuri:word myurl:in myuri:English If one wants to talk about them in a web-orientated context it's useful (almost a necessity). If one doesn't want to talk about them in a web-orientated context it's pointless. If one sometimes want to talk about them in a web-orientated context a clear and unambiguous means of translating from URIs to identifiers more suitable to the other context, and back again, may be a good idea.
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