Re: what RDF is not (was ...)

> Mark Baker wrote,
> > Anything with identity can be represented on the Web.  
> 
> Dogma ;-)

Damn useful dogma. 8-)

> > No problem.  Pick one and I'll give you a URI for it.  8-) I can 
> > give you a URI for the whole line too, or for a segment of it, or 
> > anything else identifiable about it.
> 
> Oh, sure, you can do that. But that's too easy.

"Too easy" is the point.

> But suppose you wanted to say something about _every_ segment of a
> line? Like the kind of thing you'd find in an elementary geometry
> text-book.

No problem, because it has identity.

http://example.org/msabin/line/segment/all

MB
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Received on Friday, 4 January 2002 10:17:46 UTC