- From: Jeremy Wong 黃泓量 <50263336@student.cityu.edu.hk>
- Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2005 00:28:32 +0800
- To: "Miles, AJ (Alistair)" <A.J.Miles@rl.ac.uk>, Joshua Allen <joshuaa@microsoft.com>, Stephen Rhoads <rhoadsnyc@mac.com>, semantic-web@w3.org, www-rdf-interest@w3.org
> >> > > As far as I can tell, there is no formal, generalized >> mechanism to >> > > reliably query the owner of a URI in order to obtain an RDF >> > > Description of that URI. And this is a serious impediment to the >> > > Semantic Web. >> > >> > I think this hits the nail on the head. >> >> Actually, I think this completely misses the point. If you must know >> the owner of the URI to get a description of it, it is NOT >> the "semantic >> web". >> >> This would be like saying that you have to know the owner of >> the URI in >> order to see any links to that URI. Such an idea would have >> completely >> destroyed the WWW as we know it. Same is true of SW. > > ... yeah but, to make the WWW work you have to 'know' how to get an > 'authoritative' representation of a resource (implicit in HTTP). So > surely to make SW you need some way of getting (or better, querying) an > 'authoritative' RDF description of a resource? > > SW certainly needs a way of discovering an RDF datasource that was 'said' > by a particular legal entity (i.e. person, organisation etc.) ... and > identifying a legal entity will often be done indirectly (i.e. find me a > datasource that describes X that was said by the legal entity that owns > the domain name Y). > Everyone has his/her own choice to describe a resource, anyway. To get a so-called 'authoritative' description of a resource, how about if there is a mechanism to sign the descriptions (RDF graph)? Consider the Public-Key Infrastructure? Jeremy
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