- From: Hammond, Tony (ELSLON) <T.Hammond@elsevier.com>
- Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 15:38:26 -0000
- To: 'Phil Dawes' <pdawes@users.sourceforge.net>, Patrick Stickler <patrick.stickler@nokia.com>
- Cc: ext Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>, www-rdf-interest@w3.org, "Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@comcast.net>, ext Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
> It seems to me > that the most obvious way of addressing this is to use a URI to denote > the thing (i.e. a name) and a seperate way of talking about the > numerous ways of locating information about it. Hence INFO, see <http://info-uri.info/> ... Tony > -----Original Message----- > From: www-rdf-interest-request@w3.org > [mailto:www-rdf-interest-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Phil Dawes > Sent: 22 January 2004 15:23 > To: Patrick Stickler > Cc: ext Sandro Hawke; www-rdf-interest@w3.org; Thomas B. Passin; ext > Jeremy Carroll > Subject: Re: URI: Name or Network Location? > > > > Hi Patrick, > > Patrick Stickler writes: > > > > Per your view, most URIs do not denote web pages, images, > > video streams, services, etc. but all denote "locations" and > > if we ever want to describe all those web-accessible resources, > > we need an entirely different set of URIs for them if we wish > > to talk about them. > > > > But surely the only reason this argument has weight is because there > is usually only 1 way of retrieving that web resource* - i.e. HTTP. > Thus it becomes an attractive choice for naming it. > > If the web hadn't turned out the way it has, and there were lots of > protocols vying on equal footing for supremacy, then the 'it's a name' > argument wouldn't seem so obvious. We would, as you say, probably have > a way of talking about the web resource itself, and a seperate way of > talking about the numerous ways of locating it. > > The problem now is that we are attempting to use HTTP URIs to describe > abstract concepts and physical objects, and so the 'it's a name' > argument for HTTP URIs is suddenly non-obvious again. It seems to me > that the most obvious way of addressing this is to use a URI to denote > the thing (i.e. a name) and a seperate way of talking about the > numerous ways of locating information about it. > > Cheers, > > Phil > > * or the representation of that resource >
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