Re: Contexts (spinoff from copy and wrap rdf statements)

At 9:57 AM -0800 2002-11-22, Seth Russell wrote:
>Danny Ayers wrote:
>
>>>>What about graphs that are not encoded by documents with URIs?
>>>>      
>>>>
>>>Ok, take for example the graph of all RSS items that contain the key
>>>word phrases "Star Trek", "uiversal translator", and "GroupFormingHere".
>>>  Granted there is no particular document that encodes that graph at
>>>2:15 AM on 11/22/2002.  But it is still our intention to find this graph
>>>and give it a URI so we can talk about it, right?   Is that your
>>>question?
>>>    

Similar. I was actually thinking more along the lines of "some RDF in 
a local file" or "a graph generated on the fly and sent over the 
network." Neither of those have convenient URIs.

>I think TimBl would say that 
> <http://somewhere/me.rdf><http://somewhere/me.rdf>  identifies a 
>document.  But a document is not an abstract graph.  So if that URI 
>identifies a document, what URI identifies the actual graph ?

My inclination is to say that the resource identified by 
<http://somewhere/me.rdf> is an abstract graph, and the document is a 
representation of the resource. I vaguely recall there being an 
argument against that view, but I can't think of what it would be.

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Dave Menendez - zednenem@psualum.com - http://www.eyrie.org/~zednenem/