- From: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 09:03:34 +0000
- To: Graham Klyne <GK@ninebynine.org>
- CC: Aaron Swartz <aswartz@upclink.com>, RDF Comments <www-rdf-comments@w3.org>
I have added a reference to: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2001Jan/0006.html in http://www.w3.org/2000/03/rdf-tracking/#rdfms-fragments Under a further discussion heading as this issue is intimately related to one already in the issues list. Brian Graham Klyne wrote: > > At 12:36 PM 3/9/01 -0600, Aaron Swartz wrote: > >Graham Klyne, in his terminology note drew a distinction between RDF and Web > >resources, which DanBri felt was a mistake: > > > >http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2001Jan/0104.html > > > ><q> > >"Web Resource" versus "RDF Resource" is not a distinction I care to make. We > >identify resources "to", "for" and "in" the Web, not "on" it: URIs have long > >allowed us to name so-called non-Web resources. For example: telephone > >numbers, Java interfaces, intellectual works / publications (ISBN, Handle > >etc), and the like can all be identified as RDF=Web resources, despite not > >being "on" the Web. > > > >By this I don't mean to claim that all W3C/IETF/etc documents that appeal to > >a notion of 'Resource' relating to URIs are consistent. Just that they > >should be, and that we shouldn't take as a goal the articulation of a > >distinction between 'Web' versus 'RDF' resources. > ></q> > > > >He also provided a list of related links to check for more information on > >the problem. > > > >More recently, at the W3C Technical Plenary, Graham raised the issue that > >there was no official mapping between URIs and resources. I don't have a > >pointer. Graham, have you raised this on the lists? > > Not recently. I believe I raised this on the XML namespace/URI discussion > some time ago, and periodically buttonhole individuals. > > I did raise this on URI-IG in a message dated 25-Jan. > > The matter was raised again in the RDF-IG F2F at the technical plenary, at > which time the response (if I understood correctly) was that Web resources > and RDF resources are not the same set of values. > > #g > > ------------ > Graham Klyne > GK@NineByNine.org
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