- From: Sergey Melnik <melnik@DB.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1999 13:30:33 -0800
- To: R.van.Dort@Everest.nl, Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>, Gabe Beged-Dov <begeddov@jfinity.com>
- CC: RDF Interest Group <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
Let me clarify what in my view is the core of the problem: one of the major requirements to hypertext is the ability to refer to pieces of information created by other people. We need this ability for any viable RDF serialization. The problem is *not* no name the resources in a semantically correct way, or to establish the identity of the resource under consideration etc. In my view we simply need a way to refer to something stated in an RDF document without repeating it over and over again. Thus, the scope of this problem is much narrower, and does not require addressing architectural foundations of the Web: the current serialization syntax can produce models containing resources that are not explicitly named in the serialization. If a third person wants to refer to such resource, it is essential that every parser is guaranteed to produce the same URI for the resource. Period. Sergey
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