- From: Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 12:46:18 +0000
- To: leo@gnowsis.com
- Cc: "'Patrick Stickler'" <patrick.stickler@nokia.com>, www-rdf-interest@w3.org
Leo Sauermann wrote: > Hello "uri crisis" again :-) > In this discussion my old idea of "Seperation by Ontology" did not show > up so I will add it here: > > > "Seperation by Ontology" > > means that you use a URI to identify both the document/resource at the > indicated web-place and also the concept behind. When you then want to > know some "http/html" specific stuff like "expiration date", you use the > html:expire ontology from some HTML scheme. When the resource also > describes f.e. a FOAF:Person, you can use FOAF:surname on it and it will > work. > So: > The resource has mutliple types and can be viewed from different > "dimensions", aka the different schemes. That also conforms to the RDF > specification of multiple types ! > > This is a practical solution and anybody who did already implement > somehting like it will agree on that, I hope. > > I encourage you, who are interested in the "uri crisis" discussion, to > TRY OUT the different approaches and write some RDF with them and also > do some querying. You will be surprised how complicated in practice the > other approaches are. > In natural language we do all the time: using a part to mean the whole, a whole to mean the part, or some part to mean a different part. The context of the utterance is then used to disambiguate. (There are some long words for these concepts, I forget them now). It is not clear whether a formal language should try to emulate or avoid this feature of natural language. It is certainly aids compactness. Jeremy
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