- From: Hammond, Tony (ELSLON) <T.Hammond@elsevier.com>
- Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 14:55:01 +0100
- To: 'Patrick Stickler' <patrick.stickler@nokia.com>, Eric Hellman <eric@openly.com>, Michael Mealling <michael@neonym.net>, "'hardie@qualcomm.com'" <hardie@qualcomm.com>
- Cc: uri@w3.org
Hi Patrick: > IMO, whether something is on the web or > not has less to do with the scheme of a > URI denoting it as to whether one can > access representations of that thing. There I must respectfully beg to differ. I assert that there is utility beyond dereference. And that utility puts that resource (as referenced by that URI) full square onto the Web. An admission to entry. > I'm sorry to be such a naysayer, but I see the > info: URI scheme to be both unnecessary > and (more regettable) a hinderance to > establishing a standardised URI based > means of referring to key industry terms > in a way that maximises their utiity to web > and SW agents by merit of providing access > to their definitions directly via those URIs. Would that all namespace authorities be minded to deliver such definitions. (Yes, really!) Unfortunately I don't see that as happening any time soon now. So, if there's no authoritative metadata, then getting the identifiers onto the Web (via a URI) is IMO a pretty darn good start. Tony Tony Hammond Advanced Technology Group, Elsevier 32 Jamestown Road, London NW1 7BY, UK <tel:+44-20-7424-4445> <mailto:t.hammond@elsevier.com>
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