- From: Weibel,Stu <weibel@oclc.org>
- Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 13:37:27 -0400
- To: uri@w3.org
Patrick Stickler writes, in part: > But "hiding" the denoted resource behind an info: > URI (even if it can eventually be "found" via ad hoc > resolution schemes) is hindering, not helping, the > web and SW. It is not at all clear to me why uncoupling identity and resolution in any way hinders the web, semantic or otherwise. Quite the contrary. As Eric Hellman pointed out: > ...the absence of inherent dereference is a selling point to large market segments." This is particularly true in the many cases where there is no expectation of resolution - the declaration of terminologies. It is precisely the broad availability and use of such terminologies in the Web that will make it possible to achieve the 'semantic' bit. Establishing and maintaining an http/DNS identifier for each concept in such a vocabulary is one means of making them available, but will simply not happen widely. Few of the organizations that manage such vocabularies (LCCNs, Dewey numbers, many others) have any incentive or business case to 'webulate' them. But users cannot realize their value in the digital domain unless they can be declared and identified in a consistent way. The INFO URI proposal affords a straightforward mechanism to support declarations of such namespaces, requiring no additional effort beyond the normal maintenance of the vocabulary (except the initial registration act). stu Stuart Weibel Senior Research Scientist OCLC Office of Research +1 614 764 6081 weibel@oclc.org
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