- From: Pierre-Antoine CHAMPIN <champin@cpe.fr>
- Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 10:53:47 +0100
- To: Godfrey Rust <godfreyrust@dds.netkonect.co.uk>
- CC: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
Godfrey Rust wrote: > If a resource can be defined as anything which has a URI (which seems to be > its only required characteristic) it seems to rather pull the rug away to > say that something which is defined only by its unique identity can have > multiple unique identities. the U in URI doesn't mean 'unique' but 'uniform'! A resource can be defined as anything which has AN identifier - it may be more than one. > Dan Brickley wrote: > >I'd really like to see this nailed down explicitly for > >RDF: is RDF happy with the notion that one single resource can have > >multiple URI names bound to it? I believe this is an important question, since this is a great issue for the power of expression of RDF, but RDF S&M doesn't address it at all. So I guess it's our job to do so ;P Pierre-Antoine
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