- From: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 10:29:03 -0500
- To: rreck@rrecktek.com
- Cc: semantic-web@w3.org
Ronald, In this case you are using URIs to represent words, which really is bridging two very different worlds. URIs are typically used to represent the identify of a web page or the semantics of a data field, which are fairly well defined, whereas words in a language have meanings which morph and fork with time. Most of the advice about choosing good URIs, then, will be less applicable t you when you use a URI to refer to a word. Yes, it seems reasonable to qualify it with a language. Note that RDF literals carry an optional language designator. Check out the wordnet work, and glossary work such as SIOC. Tim Ronald P. Reck wrote: > > I have a question about URIs. I think I understand the axioms here: > http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Axioms.html > > My question concerns the Axiom: Opacity of URIs > > When I work with words/strings I want to say something about them. > Now, imagine the English word "pain". > rdf:about="http://foo.com/lexicon/token#pain" > > Its real helpful to be able to derive its URI so that every time I come > upon the same string I dont incur the "pain" associated with asking some > system the question: do you know the URI for the string "pain"? > > Now, imagine I am processing French and I also have the string "pain". > Well, I believe its intrinsically a different word so I think it makes > sense to change my URI structure to > rdf:about="http://foo.bar/lexicon/fre/token#pain" > > Attractive but wrong? > Wrong only when I look for French words with "//fre" ? > > I run into the same situation when I want to manage definitions for > words from multiple communities of interest. The word "frequency" has > slightly different meanings in the domain of mathematics, physics or > signal processing. Again, it is attractive to have derivable URI's. > > Can someone please comment or point me at relevant disscussion in this > area? -thanks. >
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