- From: Frank Manola <fmanola@acm.org>
- Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:36:01 -0400
- To: Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>
- Cc: Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>
Danny-- After reading your OP and several responses, I'm still not sure exactly what this thread is about. Is the problem - "who [or what] is this "Julius Caesar" that these ancient texts talk about?" - "I can't read these ancient texts [in which names including "Julius Caesar" might appear, only I can't tell because I can't read them]?" - both? - something else entirely? --Frank "feeling he needs an example" On Mar 25, 2010, at 7:38 AM, Danny Ayers wrote: > On 25 March 2010 11:48, Jakub Kotowski <jakubkotowski@gmx.net> wrote: >> Danny Ayers schrieb: >> > The data on the planet now is probably as fragile. >>> >>> What *is* the digital equivalent of parchment? >> >> Digital data definitely is fragile but usually it is seen so because >> recording and playback methods quickly become outdated. There already >> are people looking at this problem: >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Dark_Age >> >> Perhaps the problem of naming should be brought to their attention. > > Thanks Jakub, interesting material. > > Long-term naming really does seem a bit of a pain - immediate reaction > would be to go for names that are forcefully protocol independent > (i.e. URNs), but that would be ignoring all the goodness of the Web, > and in any case URIs as names are technically protocol-independent. > > Perhaps things will improve when we see more focus on personal > (/agent/business entity etc) -oriented naming directly, with WebIDs > and so on, rather than having to live with the current model where > naming is devolved to 3rd party service providers. > > While Steve Pemberton's approach seems a bit idealistic, utopian even, > I do believe he's hitting the nail on the head in many respects - > > http://homepages.cwi.nl/~steven/vandf/2008.03-website.html > > Cheers, > Danny. > > -- > http://danny.ayers.name >
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