- From: Pierre-Antoine CHAMPIN <champin@bat710.univ-lyon1.fr>
- Date: 06 Jun 2001 09:31:56 +0200
- To: Piotr Kaminski <pkaminsk@who.net>
- Cc: topicmapmail@infoloom.com, www-rdf-interest@w3.org
On 05 Jun 2001 13:11:32 -0700, Piotr Kaminski wrote: > > >> In a topic map, a human is the ultimate arbiter of subject identity. > > >> Is the same true for an RDF resource? > > [Danny Ayers] > > Nope, go ask the URI. > > Nope, resolving the URI might return a related representation. It does not > return the resource that the URI identifies, and hence has no bearing on the > identity of the subject More generally, there is a fundamental difference between the piece of data retrieved thanks to the URI, and the resource *identified* by the URI. The latter is *generic* and its identity is indeed decided by a human being. See http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Generic.html Pierre-Antoine
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