- From: Stephen K. Rhoads <rhoads@thrupoint.net>
- Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 10:42:30 -0500
- To: <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
Charles, Is there any information available on this "semantic meaning" spec? It sounds like it will be related to something I am struggling with. --- Stephen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles McCathieNevile" <charles@w3.org> To: "Cameron McCormack" <cam-www-rdf-interest@aka.mcc.id.au> Cc: <www-rdf-interest@w3.org> Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2004 10:32 PM Subject: URIs Re: Getting RDF data into HTML > > Hi Cameron, > > this isn't something that is apparently agreed. My feeling is that you can > use a URI however you want, just like you can a word in a natural language, > but that you are much better off ensuring you're not doing something > incompatible with what other people do. > > I would suggect that you use the approach of FOAF: > > <re:Movie><foaf:homepage rdf:resource="http://www.imdb.com..." > > (Hmm, I guess that's what the re:webpage property does actually). If you want > to you can define a node that refers to this Movie, of course. > > Note that there is work on a "semantic meaning" spec, which would apparently > claim that there is a defined meaning for the URI that someone else created. > > I'm also not a big fan of using a URI that refers to a page for referring to > a concept. It means that it isn't possible to distinguish between the page > and something identifiedd in the page, which strikes me as a bad confusion to > create. > > Of course this sugggests that if you're going to use an identifier you should > define it yourself with a URI you control, since if someone else does put an > RDF schema there and defines it as something else you'll look a bit silly to > anyone who does de-reference it. > > just some thioughts... > > Chaals > > On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Cameron McCormack wrote: > > > > >Hi everyone. I've been lurking for a couple of months while my interest > >in RDF has been swelling. > > > >I have some RDF which describes TV shows and films I have seen and short > >reviews or thoughts about them. This is the file of reviews > > > > http://mcc.id.au/sw/reviews > > > >and this is the RDF schema for my review namespace > > > > http://mcc.id.au/sw/schema/reviews-1.0 > > > >. Firstly, some questions about how my RDF. > > > >1. Is it OK that I have chosen URIs to identify my re:Movie and > >re:Episode objects? For example, for a movie I'll use the imdb.com URL > >for that movie, and for an episode I might use the geos.tv page. Or > >should I be using URIs that are under my control? What if, in the > >future, it is decided that a different URI is the accepted standard for > >identifying movies and TV episodes? > > > >2. Am I right in thinking that the URIs I used to identify the re:Movies > >and re:Episodes do not necessarily have to have any information at them > >if dereferenced, and that it is a good idea to have the re:webpage > >properties as I do? > >
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