- From: Pierre-Antoine CHAMPIN <champin@bat710.univ-lyon1.fr>
- Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 10:49:10 +0100
- To: RA Poell <poell@fel.tno.nl>
- CC: RDF-Logic <www-rdf-logic@w3.org>, Pat Hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
Hello, I'm not sure I get your point : URIs are actually intended to be public names : URLs are public names for pieces of data/online services, URIs are an extension of URLs, supposedly extensible so that the same syntax can express any kind of URI. The ideal URI for boston would be city:/USA/Massachusets/Boston It assumes that the "city:" scheme is commonly agreed on, but any kind of public name has to do that agreement assumption. It may look cumbersome to write such a long name for Boston, and I agree with Pat Hayes that a web logic could accept ambiguities, as natural language does. So I guess that the following ambiguous URIs could be used too : city:Boston -- ambiguous with Boston (UK) or even named:Boston -- ambiguous with Boston (UK) and Ralh Boston (olympic champion, 1939-) The URIs abo The problem you raise doesn't come, IMO, from URIs themselves -- it is easy to imagine new kinds of URIs -- but from the fact that URI schemes do not exist yet to describe cities or persons, and that web logics need them already. Pierre-Antoine
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