- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 12:40:00 -0400 (EDT)
- To: John Evdemon <jevdemon@acm.org>
- cc: RDF-interest <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
No, I think this is very bad, since that URI may potentially be assigned and point to something else. One way the people are referred to is by eamil address - for example the Friend-of-a-friend work refers to a thing of class person which has the email address mailto:foo@bar - this works if the person has their own email account. If they don't, it gets harder still. Essentially the power to give things a name so you can refer to them in RDF is identical to the power to create content on the Web - so you could create some decsription of a person, send it to an archived email list, and refer to that (if you are happy with the idea that a URI refers directly to a person, instead of using a #fragment to point to the bit of the dereferenced document that explains that you mean a person). Cheers Chaals On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, John Evdemon wrote: > >On 6 Aug 2002 at 17:56, Peter Bruhn Andersen wrote: >> >> What is the best way to describe a person that has no unique URI? This >> person has no email address or web site of his own but works for >> various organisation. Using the URL of one or the other of the >> organisations is not acceptable. >> > >Possibly: > http://FirstNameMiddleNameLastName+DOB > Where DOB = Date of Birth > > > > -- Charles McCathieNevile http://www.w3.org/People/Charles phone: +61 409 134 136 W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI fax: +33 4 92 38 78 22 Location: 21 Mitchell street FOOTSCRAY Vic 3011, Australia (or W3C INRIA, Route des Lucioles, BP 93, 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France)
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