- From: Thomas B. Passin <tpassin@home.com>
- Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 19:44:14 -0500
- To: <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
[Sean B. Palmer] > > > Is there a basic, conceptual difference between: > > > > 1) Meta data about a resource (like the distinction between a > > book and one specific copy of it - as in Sean's post: "But > > whoops... Aaron is already using that URI to identify his copy > > of Weaving The Web"), > > Sidenote: this is not the point that I was making. Aaron claims that > his URI denotes his copy of Weaving The Web. TimBL appears to claim > otherwise, i.e. that the URI actually denotes the "document" as a set > of entities over time on Aaron's server. The assertion was that we > need a URI to identify the "document", parried by the introduction of > a predicate relationship that allows us to identify just that. > Well, yes, it wasn't exactly the point you were making, Sean. But I see two subthreads in this thread. One is the deep issue of representations and when they are equivalent or otherwise, which gets into the question of what a URI indicates, as you have said just above. The other subthread is the practical question of how to distinguish between various possibilities (some of which are raised by the first subthread), once we're clear what they are. Both subthreads seem to get mixed together easily. I just wanted to see if there is some agreement on the second subthread, which I take to be easier to think about. If so, it might be easier to work out the first one. Regards, Tom P
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