- From: Graham Klyne <GK@Dial.pipex.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 14:21:18 +0000
- To: Pierre-Antoine CHAMPIN <champin@bat710.univ-lyon1.fr>
- Cc: ML RDF-interest <www-rdf-interest@w3c.org>
At 10:25 AM 11/21/00 +0100, Pierre-Antoine CHAMPIN wrote: >"McBride, Brian" wrote: > > So I see two options. A resource can have multuple URI's in which > > case the ability to assign multiple URI's to the same reified > > statement is no problem. > > > > Option 2, resources can have only 1 URI, in which case there can be > > multiple resources which model an RDF statement, but they are all > > equivalent, as in DAML equivalentTo. > >I vote for option 2, definitely. >Statements (nor trees, nor HTML pages) are not resources : >reosurces are "conceptual mappings", which *denote* some (set of) entity. I think we could live with either interpretation without any major change of world-view, and I am aware of well-informed, reasonable people who take each view. What I do wish would happen is that the W3C community would nail down the issue so that it doesn't keep confusing debates such as this. #g ------------ Graham Klyne (GK@ACM.ORG)
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