- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 11:34:19 -0500
- To: "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>
- Cc: chris@bizer.de, linking-open-data@simile.mit.edu, semantic-web@w3.org, www-tag@w3.org
>From: noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com >Subject: Re: Terminology Question concerning Web Architecture and LinkedData >Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:55:54 -0400 > >[...] > >> I believe, however, that what we're discussing here is not just any old >> RDF statment. If I had made a statement that "the sky is green", Tim >> might reasonable express the opinion "no, I think Noah has set out a false >> statement." The case we're discussing is different, I think. Tim is, I >> believe, responsible for the association between the URI >> http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/card#i and a resource, or we may >> assume for the sake of argument that W3C has delegated that responsibility >> to him. Tim states that the resource so designated is himself, then he is >> not offering an opinion: he is stating a fact about the resource that he >> has chosen to identify with this URI. The dbpedia folks may similarly >> establish authoritative associations between the URIs they control and >> resources. > >[...] > >> Noah > >But what observable consequences come from this within a computational >system? > >Certainly statements like "the sky is green" > > ex:sky ex:colour ex:green . > >have consequences. For example, if added to functionality of the colour >propery and uniqueness of colour objects, it is inconsistent with the >sky being blue. > >However, what consequences can come from the association between a URI >and a (non-information) resource? I can't think of any, and if there >aren't any then what is the point of arguing about the status of such >associations? I can think of many of them. Of course, they may not be *logical* consequences. See http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-comments/2003JanMar/0196.html Pat -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32502 (850)291 0667 cell phayesAT-SIGNihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes
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