- From: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
- Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 07:02:03 -0400
- To: Patrick.Stickler@nokia.com
- Cc: phayes@ai.uwf.edu, gk@ninebynine.org, uri@w3.org
Patrick.Stickler@nokia.com scripsit:
> And how, pray tell, do you deal with multiple representations?
A fair criticism, and on reflection I see that the TM distinction doesn't
really address thing vs. representation at all.
Instead, it distinguishes "electronic thing" from "non-electronic thing",
which is also an important distinction. I got into this on xml-dev,
enquiring "What is the URI for the W3C? If the W3C doesn't know that,
it doesn't know much. :-)"
Someone said that TBL's answer to this was "http://www.w3.org/Consortium/",
In that case, said I, what is the URI of the document titled "About
the W3C"? No answer. I began to feel like the village atheist saying
"And who created God?"
TM does at least deal with *this* problem.
> (and BTW, I started with ISO TMs and XTM long before I got into RDF,
> and was wooed by RDF precisely because of issues such as this, so
> I'm not a "blind RDF fart who just won't take the time to consider
> TMs seriously" ;-)
Okay, okay. One never knows how much knowledge to presume when
jumping headlong into a discussion with both feet first.
--
John Cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com
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