Re: Terminology Question concerning Web Architecture and Linked Data

more musings on Sandro's defns of info resources

Sandro Hawke wrote:
> But it doesn't contain *only* information.  


> Information Resources are
> things which can be entirely and completely encoded as bits and then
> transmitted over a network.  


> They can be copied, perfectly. 

A resource can be conceptually infinite and still an info resource.
e.g. a web page that returns
<html lang="??">
  <head></head>
  <body></body>
</html>
where ?? is filled in with the user's preferred language from content 
negotiation.



 > They can be
> serialized.  

Ditto. (Also note say a site that returns a web page about today's weather)


Jeremy

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Received on Tuesday, 24 July 2007 17:18:57 UTC