RE: SemWeb Non-Starter -- Distributed URI Discovery

> Yes, that's wat WWW does.  Why ask SW to do it a different way?  If a
> resource owner wants to make available an RDF representation of his
> resource, he is welcome to do so.  WWW already supports that.  But if
> his failure to do so has any impact on your life at all, you have the
> wrong expectations about what SW is.
> 
> Even WWW doesn't break if the "owner" of a resource fails to make a
> representation available, the site is down for a period of time, never
> registered in DNS, or whatever.
>

... right but, HTTP still provides a generic mechanism for retrieving an 'authoritative' representation of a resource (i.e. HTTP GET) - whether the resource exists or not does not diminish the requirement for such a mechanism.

So the semantic web requires some generic mechanism whereby an agent can attempt to locate and query a set of RDF statements about the resource denoted by URI x that has been endorsed by some entity y - whether such statements exist or not similarly does not diminish the requirement.  N.B. In the most common scenario, y is the owner of x.  

Cheers,

Al.

Received on Friday, 1 April 2005 19:04:35 UTC