- From: Joshua Allen <joshuaa@microsoft.com>
- Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 22:01:58 -0700
- To: "Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@comcast.net>, <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
Oh, I wasn't reading that as a triple -- I was reading those as two different "things", about which one could make assertions. If that was meant to be a triple, then I reject the solution as well. > -----Original Message----- > From: Thomas B. Passin [mailto:tpassin@comcast.net] > Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 8:51 PM > To: www-rdf-interest@w3.org > > [Joshua Allen] > To: "Danny Ayers" <danny666@virgilio.it>; <msabin@interx.com>; > <www-rdf-interest@w3.org> > Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 6:18 PM > Subject: RE: Disambiguation; keeping the "U" in "URI" > > > > I like this solution. > > > > I don't. At least, not until you say whether the value - the second > http://www.markbaker.ca/index.html in the triple - is a resource or a > literal. Remember, to date we can still use either as the object of a > statement. If it's a literal, maybe this could work. But if it's a > resource, it's fair game to be the subject of another statement, and we > are > about to get mightily confused. After all, we could be able to logically > conclude that http://www.markbaker.ca/index.html is both a person and > intellectual content. Perhaps that is true for Mark (I've never met him > in > person), but unlikely to be the kind of thing we want to imply in general. > > I guess we could get really radical here and say that that we alway have > to > use templates for the predicate to provide a context for understanding the > nature of a resource in a statement. That doesn't appeal to me so I hope > we > don't have to end up there. Probably it only pushes the issue up a level > anyway. > > > > > ... > > > 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. > > > > > Cheers, > > Tom P
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