- From: Jonathan Borden <jborden@mediaone.net>
- Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 15:22:34 -0500
- To: "Peter Crowther" <Peter.Crowther@melandra.com>
- Cc: <www-rdf-logic@w3.org>
Peter Crowther wrote: > > From: Jonathan Borden [mailto:jborden@mediaone.net] > [...] > > > >"Boston" is not > > > >a URI, and neither is "4,367". > > > > Your name, "Boston" and "4,367" each have an unlimited > > number of URIs e.g. > > > > http://www.google.com/search?q=Boston > > > > This URI references a collection of 7,200,000 other URIs each of which > > reference a resource that at least at one time contained the > > term "Boston" > > Yes, but none of those URIs are representations of "Boston". Instead, they > represent results of searches about Boston, people who live in or have > visited Boston, historical events... none of those URIs capture "essence of > Boston". And there's another catch: Are we talking about Boston the place > (which one? the one in England? the crater on the Moon?), the string > B-o-s-t-o-n, or something else completely? All this is correct. The point being that we can already easily create URIs from string literals, indeed URIs that frequently return useful information in reference to the string literal. The problems with search engines are well known. I'm suggesting that we think about ways to improve upon the current situation. Jonathan Borden The Open Healthcare Group http://www.openhealth.org
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