- From: Ian Stuart <Ian.Stuart@ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 14:32:08 +0100 (BST)
- To: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
Quoting "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>: > > From: "Eli Israel" <Eli@SemanticWorld.Org> > Subject: URIs : How to find the ontologies behind them > Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 13:08:04 +0300 > > > A question about URIs: > > > > The URI for a class does not have to point to a particular resource on > the > > web, it just has to be unique. An ontology describing that entity may > be > > located somewhere else entirely. > > > > If an ontology refers to this class by its URI, how is additional, or > even > > primary, information about that class supposed to be found? > > Well, just about anywhere, at least in the general case. For example, > suppose that the class is rdfs:Class. Information about rdfs:Class can > be > found in just about any RDF document. This is very reminiscent of the discussion that happened when talking about namespaces and Schema's: "What do I put at the end a namespace URI?" which is answered at: http://lucas.ucs.ed.ac.uk/tutorials/namespaces/#rddl --==++ Ian Stuart A man in serious need of a brain transplant!
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