- From: Joshua Allen <joshuaa@microsoft.com>
- Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 15:18:05 -0700
- To: "Danny Ayers" <danny666@virgilio.it>, <msabin@interx.com>, <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
I like this solution. > -----Original Message----- > From: Danny Ayers [mailto:danny666@virgilio.it] > Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 2:58 PM > To: msabin@interx.com; www-rdf-interest@w3.org > > [thread blend] > > Probably a point of philosophy, but I don't think it is possible in any > communication to truly resolve some of the underlying issues. > > What is possible in practice is to use metadata to remove ambiguity > relating > to assertions that use URIs, by reference to humanly agreed definitions > which have unique labels, e.g. > > http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/#Creator > > This refers to "the name of the person or organization primarily > responsible > for creating the intellectual content" of something, so if I state that > > http://www.markbaker.ca/index.html dc:Creator > http://www.markbaker.ca/index.html > > then it can inferred that one of these is a person or organisation and the > other something with intellectual content. No conflict. > > I reckon it's counting angels [1] to try and sort the precise nature of a > URI out, when mechanisms exist that allow us to use the things. > > Cheers, > Danny. > > > [1] http://www.citnames.com/2001/misc/angels.htm > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: www-rdf-interest-request@w3.org > >[mailto:www-rdf-interest-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Miles Sabin > >Sent: 24 April 2002 22:28 > >To: www-rdf-interest@w3.org > >Subject: RE: Disambiguation; keeping the "U" in "URI" > > > > > >Mark Baker wrote, > >> 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" > > > >This is where Mark and I differ. This new URI may indeed be yet > >another of Marks aliases, but it _also_ designates, in the context of > >a GET, a document with information associated with Mark. IOW, this use > >of Content-Location: wrt http://www.markbaker.ca hasn't resolved the > >original ambiguity between Mark and a document, it's just set us off > >chasing Content-Location: pointers ad nauseam. That's unhelpful IMO. > > > >I'm happy with the use of Content-Location: as a mechanism for > >resolving ambiguity between retrievable referents (eg. for variant > >representation selection), but it doesn't solve the whole problem. > > > >FWIW, I was half expecting Marks response to Nicks question to be > >something like "Sitting in his office chair", using some kind of > >geolocation URI scheme (is there one?). Also, IMO, not very helpful, > >but more obviously consistent with his position wrt Content-Location: > > > >Cheers, > > > > > >Miles > >
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