- From: Toby A Inkster <tai@g5n.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:24:48 +0100
- To: Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>
> Having names for fundamental terms based on the DNS system is a > weakness. What will we do if purl.org gets taken over by a casino > site? > Will we argue that the terms keep their meaning even if the casino > site > says something else There is no law that says that if a tool wants to determine the meaning of <http://purl.org/dc/terms/title> it must perform an HTTP request for that URI, even though that is common practice right now. It would be just as valid an approach for it to query a database, or to retrieve the meaning from a web service. http://meaningof.example/?as-of=2008&uri=http://purl.org/dc/terms/title -- Toby A Inkster <mailto:mail@tobyinkster.co.uk> <http://tobyinkster.co.uk>
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