- From: <Patrick.Stickler@nokia.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 17:53:06 +0300
- To: <jon@spin.ie>, <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
> -----Original Message----- > From: ext Jon Hanna [mailto:jon@spin.ie] > Sent: 28 July, 2003 17:02 > To: www-rdf-interest@w3.org > Subject: RE: Do resources have representations? > > > ... Authority need exist only is so far as > authorising the use of > the identifier to identify a resource, not to make any > further statements > than that. I don't think I agree with you here, at least not completely. For URIs which include a web authority component, one can treat as authoritative all statements about a resource which are published by that web authority. Thus, while there may be all kinds of statements on the SW about some resource http://example.org/foo, those statements that are provided as the results of an explicit query to the actual web authority of the URI, e.g. MGET http://example.org/foo HTTP/1.1 per the model defined by http://sw.nokia.com/URIQA.html, should be considered to be authoritative. There may, of course, be other notions of authority, and means to attribute different kinds of authoritative weight to statements from various sources, but one should be able to presume that statements made by the web authority of a URI are authoritative; at least as authoritative as the representations provided when dereferencing the URI using GET are "authoritative representations" of that resource. > ... > > > This has practical relevance for me because I'm toying with > creating a > > web server that uses descriptions similar to this to define what a > > resource is and which representations it has. For example, > you could say > > > > <http://example.org/img/logo> hasRepresentation > > <http://example.org/img/logo.svg> . > > <http://example.org/img/logo.svg> mimeType "image/svg+xml" . > > <http://example.org/img/logo.svg> preference "1" . > > > > <http://example.org/img/logo> hasRepresentation > > <http://example.org/img/logo.png> . > > <http://example.org/img/logo.png> mimeType "image/png" . > > <http://example.org/img/logo.png> preference "0.5" . > > I've also been thinking along these lines, and would love to see a first stab at a standardized vocabulary for capturing basic Web behavior, including content negotiation, robot instructions/constraints, etc. using SW machinery and including an ontology of common web-related resources which can be used to clarify the denotation of URIs (WebPage, WebSite, Representation, etc.) > I played with a vocabulary for describing these relationships > a while back. > <http://www.spin.ie/jon/rep/rep.xml> documents them if you're > interested. I'll definitely have a look, myself. Cheers, Patrick -- Patrick Stickler Nokia, Finland patrick.stickler@nokia.com
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