- From: Frank Manola <fmanola@acm.org>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:12:15 -0400
- To: "Michael K. Bergman" <mike@mkbergman.com>
- Cc: Linking Open Data <linking-open-data@simile.mit.edu>, Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>, semantic-web@w3.org, www-tag@w3.org
On Jul 26, 2007, at 12:03 PM, Michael K. Bergman wrote: > Chris Bizer wrote: >> Hi Frank, Pat and Bernard, >> thanks a lot for all your ideas and comments. >> So what we are having on the table right now is a definition: >> "The term XXX refers to the description of a non-information >> resource that a client obtains by dereferencing a specific URI >> that identifies this non-information resource." > > Stand back and read this sentence to yourself three times. > >> and various proposals for the term: >> Pat Hayes: >> - represented description >> - redirected description >> - redescription >> - transmit >> - infon >> Frank Manola >> - associated representation >> Bernard Vatant: >> - description > > Can't we just kill the term "non-information resource" once and for > all? All it does is obfuscate understanding and resolution. > > Mercy be upon us when we try to actually communicate with the > public outside these forums. > Why the qualification to "outside these forums"? Have you noticed how much traffic the issue has generated *inside* these forums ever since the distinction was made? --Frank
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