- From: Peter Crowther <Peter.Crowther@melandra.com>
- Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 14:55:51 +0100
- To: "www-rdf-logic" <www-rdf-logic@w3.org>
> From: Steven Gollery [mailto:sgollery@cadrc.calpoly.edu] > what if we're using > an inferencing engine to reason about RDF statements? Would > the engine > treat all occurrences of SlashURIs as referring to the thing > itself, or > would it have to try to access each SlashURI and check what > comes back, > perhaps performing different kinds of inferencing depending > on whether > the response is a "302 found" redirect or not? It looks like that could be the case, yes. Not good, especially considering that there are already issues around an OWL document importing other OWL documents when the source for those documents is unavailable. Suddenly we have another case of the 'meaning' of something changing depending on whether it is possible to contact its server at present or not. The other approaches seem to be (a) to have complete uniformity and accept that it is not possible to tell whether a URI refers to a thing or a document about the thing, or (b) to have syntactically distinguished URIs that are only used to denote things. Speaking entirely personally, I prefer (b) as a more expressive solution that does not require excessive engineering - a new URI scheme (thing:...) would be sufficient. However, before Pat and others round on me, I'm aware that this is considered a somewhat simplistic view :-). - Peter
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