- From: Lars Marius Garshol <larsga@garshol.priv.no>
- Date: 15 Apr 2002 00:04:31 +0200
- To: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
* Nikita Ogievetsky | | What I am saying is that given a statement like this: | | http://uche.ogbuji.net :characteristics :very-interesting | | will leave many people puzzled whether I mean that you are a very | interesting person or that your website is definitely worth looking | at. :-) * Uche Ogbuji | | It shouldn't leave least bit puzzled. It is obviously talking | aboout the Web site, not the person. I think Nikita is right. If you look at the RDF currently being published, most of it (if not all), uses http URIs to point to things that are not network-retrievable resources. So while I agree that there *ought* to be no confusion, I think that in practice there is. This could be fixed by providing convenient and understandable mechanisms for handling this, but current practice seems to be broken. | But I don't see the confusion. RFC 1738, which governs the URI | http://uche.ogbuji.net makes it clear that this URI | locates/identifies the document that is retrieved using HTTP and | that address. Why would anyone thing it represents a person? Because lots of people use URIs that way. | Maybe I'm just thick, but I just do not come close to understanding | Topic Maps. There are just too many moving parts interacting in | confusing ways. I must say, though, from observice the discussiuons | at KT, that I'm not sure anyone really does. I find this a puzzling statement. To me they are very clear, and it seems to me that most topic mappers feel the same way. It really is quite simple. In fact, I don't think it's much harder to understand than RDF is. RDF isn't all that complex, but it still does take a while to grok. The problem being more the lack of good documentation than anything else. -- Lars Marius Garshol, Ontopian <URL: http://www.ontopia.net > ISO SC34/WG3, OASIS GeoLang TC <URL: http://www.garshol.priv.no >
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