Strong Evidence for the Name vs. Location Distinction (repost in plain text)

Some folks seemed to have some problems with the .n3 file I
sent previously as an attachment, so here is the contents of
that file verbatim...

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#  Strong Evidence for the Name vs. Location Distinction
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#  Author: Patrick Stickler <patrick.stickler@nokia.com>
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#  Copyright (C) Nokia 2002
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#  The following RDF/N3 statements aim to illustrate the importance
#  of a formal and consistently upheld distinction between the
#  names of locations and the location-independent names of
#  non-location resources.
#
#  The following claims are presumed by and hopefully validated
#  by the statements below:
#
#  1. URIs are names of resources.
#  2. Locations are a special kind of resource.
#  3. URLs are names of locations.
#  4. URNs are location-independent names of non-location resources.
#  5. Non-location resources may be accessible at one or more locations.
#  6. The Web and SW architecture must allow one to make statements
#     about:
#       a. Non-location resources.
#       b. Location resources.
#       c. The location of non-location resources.
#       d. The URIs themselves.
#
#  This means, among other things, that:
#
#  * An http: URL by which one retrieves a representation of a web page
#    does not name/denote the web page, but only the location from which
#    the web page representation was obtained; and for some applications,
#    such as a web browser, such 'nameless' reference (the resource that
#    resides at the following location) is sufficient. For other
#    applications, such as resource and site management, it is not, and
#    it is necessary to differentiate between the name of the location
#    and the name of the resource accessible at some location.
#
#  * A mailto: URL does not name/denote a person, but a point of access
#    bound to a specific set of protocols, though one may be able to deduce
#    the identity of that person by their association with that URL.
#
#  * Statements made about a URL are about the location, not the resource
#    which may reside at that location.
#
#  Last Modified: $Date: 2002/03/08 09:45:48 $
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@prefix rdf:  <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> .
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix daml: <http://www.daml.org/2001/03/daml+oil#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix dc:   <http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/> .
@prefix rdfl: <voc://nokia.com/RDFL-1.0/> .
@prefix x:    <voc://-/0da5edc7-3265-11d6-8917-0003931df47c> .

<voc://identities-r-us.com/253_Patrick_M_Stickler>
   a x:Person ;
   daml:equivalentTo <voc://nokia.com/People/Patrick.Stickler> ;
   dc:title "Patrick Stickler" ;
   dc:created <val:(http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema%23date)1966-03-31> ;
   dc:creator <voc://identities-r-us.com/2781891_Irene_T_Stickler> ;
   dc:contributor <voc://identities-r-us.com/78392_Christopher_A_Stickler> ;
   x:mother <voc://identities-r-us.com/2781891_Irene_T_Stickler> ;
   x:father <voc://identities-r-us.com/78392_Christopher_A_Stickler> ;
   x:worksFor <voc://nokia.com> ;
   x:hasEmailAddress <mailto:kc4yyy@arrl.net> ;
   x:hasCV <hrn://nokia.com/CV/Stickler_Patrick_M> .
  
<mailto:kc4yyy@arrl.net>
   a x:EmailAddress ;
   dc:title "Stickler, Patrick M." ;
   dc:created <val:(http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema%23date)1996-09-14> ;
   dc:creator "Billy Joe Webmaster" ;
   x:redirectsTo <mailto:patrick.stickler@nokia.com> .

<mailto:patrick.stickler@nokia.com>
   a x:EmailAddress ;
   dc:title "Patrick M. Stickler" ;
   dc:created <val:(http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema%23date)1999-03-28> ;
   dc:creator "NBI/NOE/TRE/HER" ;
   x:quota <val:(voc://gonzo.net/measures/megabytes)2000> .

<hrn://nokia.com/CV/Stickler_Patrick_M>
   a x:CV ;
   dc:title "Patrick's Resume" ;
   dc:created <val:(http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema%23date)2000-11-02> ;
   dc:creator <voc://nokia.com/People/Patrick.Stickler> ;
   dc:modified <val:(http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema%23date)2002-02-27> ;
   x:location <http://nokia.com/~ps/resume.html> ;
   x:location <http://bubba.wooga.edu/staff/patrick.html> .

<http://nokia.com/~ps/resume.html>
   a x:ResourceLocation ;
   dc:title "A web location at Nokia" ;
   dc:created <val:(http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema%23date)2001-05-18> ;
   dc:creator "NBI/NOE/HKI" .

<http://bubba.wooga.edu/staff/patrick.html>
   a x:ResourceLocation ;
   dc:title "A web location at Wooga University" ;
   dc:created <val:(http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema%23date)2002-01-02> ;
   dc:creator "Faculty IM, Mary Jane" ;
   x:redirectsTo <http://nokia.com/~ps/resume.html> .

<uri:http://nokia.com/~ps/resume.html>
   a <http:> .

<http:>
   a <voc://nokia.com/URI-Taxonomy-1.0/URIScheme> ;
   rdfs:subClassOf <voc://nokia.com/URI-Taxonomy-1.0/URL> ;
   rdfs:subClassOf <voc://nokia.com/URI-Taxonomy-1.0/HierarchicalURI> ;
   rdfl:patternDependencyOn
             <voc://nokia.com/URI-Taxonomy-1.0/HierarchicalURI> ;
   rdfl:pattern "http:.+" .

<uri:voc://identities-r-us.com/253_Patrick_M_Stickler>
   a <voc:> .

<voc:>
   a <voc://nokia.com/URI-Taxonomy-1.0/URIScheme> ;
   rdfs:subClassOf <voc://nokia.com/URI-Taxonomy-1.0/URT> ;
   rdfs:subClassOf <voc://nokia.com/URI-Taxonomy-1.0/HierarchicalURI> ;
   rdfs:isDefinedBy
<http://www-nrc.nokia.com/sw/draft-pstickler-voc-01.html> ;
   dc:created <val:(http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema%23date)2001-09-12> ;
   dc:creator <voc://nokia.com/People/Patrick.Stickler> ;
   dc:modified <val:(http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema%23date)2002-03-04> ;
   rdfl:patternDependencyOn
             <voc://nokia.com/URI-Taxonomy-1.0/HierarchicalURI> ;
   rdfl:pattern "voc:.+" .

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# C.f.
# http://www-nrc.nokia.com/sw/draft-pstickler-voc-01.html
# http://www-nrc.nokia.com/sw/draft-pstickler-hrn-01.html
# http://www-nrc.nokia.com/sw/draft-pstickler-uri-01.html
# http://www-nrc.nokia.com/sw/draft-pstickler-val-00.html
# http://www-nrc.nokia.com/sw/rdfl.html
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For folks not familiar with the N3 notation, have a look at
the exellent primer at:

   http://www.w3.org/2000/10/swap/Primer.html

Cheers,

Patrick

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Patrick Stickler              Phone: +358 50 483 9453
Senior Research Scientist     Fax:   +358 7180 35409
Nokia Research Center         Email: patrick.stickler@nokia.com

Received on Friday, 8 March 2002 09:20:38 UTC