- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 07:02:42 -0500 (EST)
- To: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>
- cc: rdf interest <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Jan Grant wrote: > ...albeit a quiche-eating one. It occurred to me that there are some > things that we shouldn't attempt to assign URIs to. In an ironic twist, > here's a link to an example: > > http://home.earthlink.net/~thebadger/prisoner.html Otherwise known as... <wn:Person xmlns:wn="http://xmlns.com/wordnet/1.6/Person" xmlns:foaf="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/" foaf:prisonerCode="6" /> Yep, though there's no huge social difference between assigning a number/ID as someone's "URI" versus relating them to a number/mailbox/homepage/etc. A lot of what we want URIs to do for us, we can do with other forms of identifying expression (typically built from URIs... :) so there's no escape, even for things that don't have URIs... dan
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