RE: URI etymology

Your example of applying the same name in two domains is interesting.
Perhaps a universal name-mangling algorithm is in order?

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> From: www-rdf-interest-request@w3.org
> [mailto:www-rdf-interest-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Sampo Syreeni
> Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 2:14 AM
> To: Sean B. Palmer
> Cc: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
> Subject: Re: URI etymology
>
>
> On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Sean B. Palmer wrote:
>
> >Onto cases where URLs represent both a "namespace" and also return a
> >document. That document is simply a representation of a resource, not
> >the resource itself, so is there really any problem there?
>
> It is a problem in that those representations are resources in their own
> right. Following the same logic, we might argue that a picture of a person
> is a representation of that person. Yet, if you want to process
> both people
> and images in your SW app, you run into trouble when you want to tell that
> the person and the image have different names, belong to different classes
> and that one of sizes at 120x100 pixels grayscale. In the case of
> documents
> defining namespaces, there might be more than one, each with their own RDF
> descriptions. Even such basic metadata as the Dublin core will likely be
> different for each of the representations, and still different from the
> description of the namespace itself. Not to mention any inference
> rules one
> might come up with.
>
> I do know that this sort of reasoning has a somewhat puritanian
> feel to it,
> but once you have a SW running where other people, or worse yet,
> applications written by other people, need to use your data, you start to
> bump into the finer grained semantic distinctions. It seems to me that
> thinking ahead is the easiest way to avoid future confusion.
>
> Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy, mailto:decoy@iki.fi, gsm: +358-50-5756111
> student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front
>

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