- From: Bill de hÓra <dehora@eircom.net>
- Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 12:32:39 +0100
- To: <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Danny, Contextual search is a simple enough idea: www.teoma.com . Usability and IR people have been suggesting it for quite a few years now as an augment to people using computers. Somebody smart should figure out a similar hack for URIs in RDF, because there's no chance people will use them in an unambiguous way as names across the web. Using a thesaurus, or probabilities, comes to mind. If the downstream value of RDF is in merging information, as some of the people working on it for a few years now have suggested, then I claim disambiguation as a requirement for the semantic web. Assuming a URI identifies one resource is not a weak assumption; assuming we'll all agree which resource is very weak. Perhaps the web in place today isn't expressive enough to negotiate disambiguation; we may have a bootstrapping problem. > Ok, if I'm talking about the size of http://www.microsoft.com > am I talking about the number of employees or the number of > characters on their home page? My common sense says you're talking about the home page. After all, you're using a http: scheme URI. Unfortunately common senses aren't always interoperable. If one wants to go ahead and use http: scheme URIs as proper names, ie the represented resource is a company instead of home page, they could at least attempt to provide a protocol to aid disambiguation. Be clear. Bill de hÓra -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 7.0.4 iQA/AwUBPMaX1eaWiFwg2CH4EQIYMQCfalHzkZe4whIX/wkdCsusS7SFeRkAoLrS yBUbDpm1A2p4dCDhc2oH4WEx =FqHc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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