- From: Sean B. Palmer <sean@mysterylights.com>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 18:27:19 +0100
- To: "Seth Russell" <seth@robustai.net>, <Patrick.Stickler@nokia.com>, <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
- Cc: <Ora.Lassila@nokia.com>
> But if the web page is describing an abstract entity [see > below], and some author decides to coin the URI for > that abstract entity to be his web page URL; then the > RDF cannot tell the difference between descriptions of > the abstract thing and descriptions of web page. But then the author has assigned a URI to two different resources, which is prohibited by the URI specification. It's either a Web Page, or it's the concept of some abstract thing, like love or hatred, or it represents some physical object like a brick, but not all three. Not any more than one. So you have http://robustai.net/seth/ and it's your homepage. Fine. You can put it in your RDF bookmark system. Now, you want to coin some abstract entity that is defined by a view of that resource, for example "Truth", so you use the URI http://robustai.net/seth/#Truth or even http://robustai.net/seth/Truth as long as the latter is never referred to as a Web Page. Even if it is, there isn't a problem, thanks to contextualization - someone can call it a Web Page if they want to - it won't break any of your programs. -- Kindest Regards, Sean B. Palmer @prefix : <http://webns.net/roughterms/> . :Sean :hasHomepage <http://purl.org/net/sbp/> .
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