Re: URI for abstract concepts (domain, host, origin, site, etc.)

Martin J. Dürst wrote:
> On 2009/06/27 3:36, Xiaoshu Wang wrote:
>
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>> Thus,
>>
>> "http://danbri.org/foaf.rdf#danbri" denotes a person.
>> "http://danbri.org/foaf.rdf#(application/rdf+xml)danbri" denotes an RDF
>> node.
>> "http://danbri.org/foaf.rdf#(application/xhtml+xml)danbri" denotes an
>> HTML element ided "danbri
>>     
>
> I don't understand this. Why wouldn't I just use
>     http://danbri.org/foo.html#danbri
> or anything similar for HTML fragments? (I'm assuming that foaf.rdf 
> returns an application/rdf+xml documend, and foo.html returns an 
> application/xhtml+xml document; the extensions may be meaningless to the 
> protocol but help to keep things apart for humans and computers.)
>   
Well, then it just doesn't work for extending the referential range of 
URI to denote things beyond engineering entities.  If you take a URI 
(fragment or not) to denote document (or its sub-structure), then the 
Web is not much useful to our daily use.  If you take a URI to denote 
other things, like a human or person, then you cannot describe a 
document structure.  And there is one URI, then you have to make a 
decision which one it denotes, right?
> Also, I don't see much of a need to denote an RDF node per se. I'm sure 
> there are special applications one can come up with where reasoning 
> about RDF nodes per se is helpful/necessary/whatever, but for such 
> cases, there are other techniques available already. A single special 
> property and blank nodes would do the job.
>   
Sure, we can use special property and blank nodes, but don't we need to 
know a URI does first before applying a property to that right?


Xiaoshu

> Regards,   Martin.
>
>
>   
>> When a URI owner uses content negotiation, they should make the content
>> of each representation consistent. Of course, there could be
>> inconsistencies if a user is not careful. But it is no different from
>> the case when someonelse makes an inconsistent statement about
>> "http://danbri.org/foaf.rdf#danbri". Inconsistent resources (whether it
>> is caused by the same root-URI owner or not) will simply not be used
>> (i.e., linked) by others, hence eventually die of isolation.
>> This is the same old story from the httpRange-14. Once we straighten
>> that out, all other problems are very easy to answer.
>>
>> Xiaoshu
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Received on Sunday, 28 June 2009 15:03:23 UTC