- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 23:08:02 -0400
- To: Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>
- Cc: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>, Nick Matsakis <matsakis@mit.edu>, www-rdf-interest@w3.org
Sandro, On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 04:43:06PM -0400, Sandro Hawke wrote: > Clicking on a link in a hypertext system means "tell me more about > this thing". The "thing" is identified to the user in your example as > "IBM". The web tells you more about things by fetching and displaying > web pages containing natural-language information about them. Nowhere > in the system is the thing itself formally identified, just the place > where you can get some information. As JonB responded to TimBL on www-tag, please tell me what it buys me to make this distinction. Because I can't find any spec that tells me I can't do this; indeed, RFC 2396 says that anything with identity can be assigned a URI. And also, as I mentioned with my IBM/Google example, people *do* make assertions about IBM the company by making assertions about http://www.ibm.com. 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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