- From: Graham Klyne <Graham.Klyne@MIMEsweeper.com>
- Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 11:07:46 +0100
- To: las@olin.edu
- Cc: www-rdf-logic@w3.org
I would expect that the claimed meaning of a URI that is supported by a community of practice (e.g. one defined by W3C) would carry more legal weight than one used by a single individual (e.g. a web trader's private definition). (+usual disclaimer about not being a lawyer) [Hmmm: where does this discussion belong? It's surely not logic, and only weakly related to RDFcore, I think. I've copied rdf-logic because that's where the participants seem to be living.] #g At 05:46 PM 5/29/02 -0400, Lynn Andrea Stein wrote: >Yes, but the difference is that in "normal" parlance terms are defined by >communities of practice. (One can argue about what the community uses a >term to mean, or about what community the term was used with respect to, >but there's no one definitive source for THE MEANING of the term other >than the community.) In contrast, you have suggested that authority to >define the meaning of an RDF predicate IN FACT vests with the owner of the >URL. ------------------- Graham Klyne <GK@NineByNine.org>
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