- From: Pete Johnston <p.johnston@ukoln.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 21:11:11 -0000
- To: 'Richard Lennox' <listserve@richardlennox.net>, www-rdf-interest@w3.org
Richard, > Does any one know of a article/webpage that discusses the issues surrounding the issue of assigning URIs to a person. Not quite assigning URIs to people, so this may not answer your question, but http://rdfweb.org/mt/foaflog/archives/2003/07/10/12.05.33/index.html is a very nice treatment of the identifier problem. ==== Short version: In FOAF, we use URIs to identify things while describing them. When we don't have URIs handy, we take care to use identifying properties in our descriptions. We don't care which properties we use, so long as they are unambiguous. The more that get into general use, the easier it becomes to figure out when two documents are describing the same entity. ==== Pete
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