- From: Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 12:20:44 +0900
- To: "Sean B. Palmer" <sean@mysterylights.com>, "David Megginson" <david@megginson.com>
- Cc: <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
At 02:09 01/02/13 +0000, Sean B. Palmer wrote: > > > > <#x> > > > > daml:equivalentTo > > > > http://www.megginson.com/battles.rdf#jutland > > > > I already answered this one privately -- this solution won't scale, > > because it requires you to retrieve a resource to find the aliased > > identifier [...] it's not a practical alternative to sharing the same > > identifier. > >Well, actually that depends on what you are doing. If the Schema above is >directly adjacent to your SW system, and your system only groks the >"Megginson-ised" URI, then it can convert from one to t'other. Therefore, >it is a practical alternative in some closed (and semi-closed) world RDF >systems. It wouldn't scale on the WWW, because as you say, there could be >thousands of links by the time you get to the third level... Seth Russell >wrote something a while ago about the Semantic Web being fractal in origin >that you might want to research (or if you are lucky he might pipe up on). I'm not sure it's possible to say that it won't scale on the WWW. I think it very much depends on how many different places invent identifiers for the same thing independently,..., i.e. on how fractal the whole thing will be. Regards, Martin.
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