- From: Kal Ahmed <kal@ontopia.net>
- Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 21:03:53 +0100
- To: "Danny Ayers" <danny@panlanka.net>, "Seth Russell" <seth@robustai.net>, "RDF-IG" <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
Danny Ayers wrote: > <- Absolutely! Things with no identity are not nothing, they are simply > <- unidentifiable within the bounds of a computer system. With the > <- development > <- of new identification schemes, things may move from > <- Non-Addressable Subject > <- to Resource over time. > > I'm curious - what is the purpose of non-addressable subjects in > a computer > system? > i.e. what can you actually do with things you can't identify? > (apart from sling 'em on the pile in the corner ;-) > > examples would be nice > Consider the XTM / XTM Specification. XTM is a non-addressable subject, the XTM Specification is an addressable resource. Using these two topics, I could create an association (say, "specified by") between XTM and the XTM Spec. I could then use XTM as the central topic for a bunch of other associations (e.g. of types "tutorial on", "application uses") etc. In other words, I am making a set of assertions about XTM, without requiring the subject to be addressable. Cheers, Kal
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