- From: Ian Davis <ian.davis@talis.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:47:52 +0000
- To: Peter F Brown <peter@pensive.eu>
- Cc: Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>, KANZAKI Masahide <mkanzaki@gmail.com>, martin.hepp@uibk.ac.at, Peter Ansell <ansell.peter@gmail.com>, Bernard Vatant <bernard.vatant@mondeca.com>, Reto Bachmann-Gmür <reto@gmuer.ch>, Leo Sauermann <leo.sauermann@dfki.de>, public-sweo-ig@w3.org, semantic-web@w3.org
On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 13:50 +0100, Peter F Brown wrote: > Just to clarify a couple of points: > - when I refer to the use/mention issue it is in the sense of > understanding that www.example.com/psi/apple can be "used" as being > the thing pointed to (that URI might dereference, for example, to a > string of data that, for the owner of the domain, is to be used as > being the thing named); or it can be "mentioned" as something that is > a marker or token, standing as a proxy for the thing, elsewhere in > addressable network space or not; My issue today is that there is no > mechanism in the RDF standard to tell me if you intend it stand for > the formal or the latter case. Topic Map PSId's do. I may not be understanding the subtleties of the issue but I think there may be a way to express the difference between use and mention in RDF. In turtle I would write <www.example.com/psi/apple> to refer to the resource identified by that URI - I think this is equivalent to "use" of the URI. If I just wanted to "mention" the URI I would write "www.example.com/psi/apple"^^xsd:URI Ian
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