- From: Seth Russell <seth@robustai.net>
- Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 09:00:00 -0700
- To: "Charles McCathieNevile" <charles@w3.org>, "Lee Jonas" <lee.jonas@cakehouse.co.uk>
- Cc: "'Aaron Swartz'" <aswartz@swartzfam.com>, "RDF Interest" <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>, "RDF Logic" <www-rdf-logic@w3.org>
From: "Charles McCathieNevile" <charles@w3.org> > Right. And the best way to do that is for the creator of the URI to say what > the URI means, not for a third party to guess and then assume that their > guess is correct. (Until we get the telepathic web). Right!! And where the URI is a URL to a web page, the best way to do that is simply to embed the RDF description of exactly what the author intended the URI to denote right there between <head> ...</head>. The strange thing, that I can't figure out, is: even though the W3C recommends this (see quote form M&S below ), one can almost never find such descriptions on their pages. Why? Of course, we also need a good schema that would deconfuse these use\mention terms like "denote", "name", "reference", "describes", "models", "sinn", "bedeutung" ..... Seth Quoting: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-rdf-syntax/#transport "Descriptions may be associated with the resource they describe in one of four ways: 1. The Description may be contained within the resource ("embedded"; e.g. in HTML). 2. The Description may be external to the resource but supplied by the transfer mechanism in the same retrieval transaction as that which returns the resource ("along-with"; e.g. with HTTP GET or HEAD). " ...[snip passages that don't apply] ... "The recommended technique for embedding RDF expressions in an HTML document is simply to insert the RDF in-line as shown in Example 7.7. " Example 7.7: <html> <head> <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/metadata/dublin_core#"> <rdf:Description about=""> <dc:Creator> <rdf:Seq ID="CreatorsAlphabeticalBySurname" rdf:_1="Mary Andrew" rdf:_2="Jacky Crystal"/> </dc:Creator> </rdf:Description> </rdf:RDF> </head> <body> <P>This is a fine document.</P> </body> </html>
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