- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 16:19:17 -0400
- To: Nick Matsakis <matsakis@mit.edu>
- Cc: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>, www-rdf-interest@w3.org
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 03:54:36PM -0400, Nick Matsakis wrote: > I don't understand what you mean by this. What should the > "Content-Location" be on an http request for the (person) > http://www.markbaker.ca ? "Sitting in his office chair" ? "http://www.markbaker.ca/index.html" Now if only I can figure out how to tell Apache to do this for me. mod_headers isn't granular enough. > > Re the IBM web site, I would expect that somewhere on the order of 99% > > of all the back links to "http://www.ibm.com" are using it to identify > > the company, not the Web page. > > I think this is a matter for debate. People like to link to a company's > web sites in sentences that refer to the company, but this is purely a > matter of convention; Never underestimate the power of convention! > any human reading the setence has no problem > disambiguating that the link points to a website while the word (e.g. > "IBM") in the sentence refers to the company. Words like "web site" and "home page" just confuse discussions like this. They're artificial. If 99% of a large number of people say stuff like; <a href="http://www.ibm.com/">IBM</a> is a good company then that's sufficient to establish that "http://www.ibm.com/" identifies the company. If IBM came along later and decided that "http://www.ibm.com/the-company" was to define the company, they'd have a hard time doing so because convention has already decided. This is a good thing. > Nonetheless, what people do > in HTML should have negligible influence on what people do in RDF. I disagree strongly. It's the use of URIs, in any context, that defines what they identify. MB -- Mark Baker, Chief Science Officer, Planetfred, Inc. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. mbaker@planetfred.com http://www.markbaker.ca http://www.planetfred.com
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