- From: Lee Jonas <lee.jonas@cakehouse.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 12:28:55 +0100
- To: "'Andy Powell'" <a.powell@ukoln.ac.uk>, RDF Interest <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
Andy Powell [mailto:a.powell@ukoln.ac.uk] wrote:
>One other issue with this approach is that it makes two resources ('the
>resource' and 'the RDF about the resource') available at the same URL.
>Both of these are (different) resources and each may have other RDF
>descriptions about them.
Yes, you have expressed my original doubts in a nutshell. Is a resource's
metadata a different representation of that resource, or a different
resource entirely?
The former would indicate it is an acceptible way to do it, the latter not.
Any views?
>Is it a problem to make both resources available
>at the same URL or is everything OK provided that they can both also be
>identified separately with their own URI? Or doesn't it matter?
>
>Andy
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I assume you can always identify them separately with their own URI as well.
regards
Lee
Received on Tuesday, 24 April 2001 07:29:13 UTC