- From: Thomas B. Passin <tpassin@home.com>
- Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 19:08:38 -0400
- To: <www-rdf-logic@w3.org>
[<Patrick.Stickler@nokia.com>] > > The core mechanisms of RDF *must* preserve the integrity of all data. > Aha! I'm going to strongly disagree with you here. One of the features of the current web is that it is not self-consistent, nor is it stable in the sense that pointers (URLs) can be guaranteed to always point to the same thing, or indeed to anything. The web is extensible without central repositories or contracts in large part because it isn't required to be self-consistent. But we learn to deal with it anyway. There is no way the SW is going to be any more self-consistent or stable than what we have today. Now, what's the difference between inconsistent or changing data, and mechanisms that don't "preserve the integrity of all data"? Nothing, really, it's just a matter at what point inconsistencies creep in. In either case, our systems are going to have to deal with it. After all, no two people have exactly the same definitions of or connotations for any word, yet somehow we communicate and get things done. It will have to be like that with the SW, I imagine. Cheers, Tom P
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