- From: Miles, AJ \(Alistair\) <A.J.Miles@rl.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 19:36:36 +0100
- To: <semantic-web@w3.org>, <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
> 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.
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