> a URI to denote the Mona Lisa, because no matter what I get back from an > http request, it sure ain't going to be the Mona Lisa (hopefully, it will > be a photograph of it). I'm still trying to decide what category the > Declaration of Independence falls in. Perhaps a continuum of > "retrievability" is in order. Excellent! Actual continuum from abstract UUID to URL which can be used to retrieve the master digital copy of a resource that exists only as bits. (In case of the Mona Lisa, a large TIFF image would be closer to the "real thing" than a lossy-compressed JPG which would itself be closer than a thumb nail GIF. Perhaps it should be a numerical scale added as a fragment identifier to the URL. ) > Anyone care to help me formalize this intuition? Not me, but surely it must have been done in other contexts? \\ Eugene Kuznetsov \\ eugene@datapower.com \\ DataPower Technology, Inc.Received on Tuesday, 30 April 2002 08:39:07 UTC
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