- From: <nick@webthing.com>
- Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 22:50:34 +0100 (BST)
- To: Joshua Allen <joshuaa@MICROSOFT.com>
- cc: www-tag@w3.org
On Fri, 26 Jul 2002, Joshua Allen wrote: > > > > The *web* is about accessing resources. The *semantic* web is about > > > *describing* resources, even those which cannot be accessed. > Describing > > > does not and should not require accessing. > > > > EARL and Annotea are used to describe resources that must be accessed > > for the metadata to be meaningful. That is clearly not obvious to > > Wrong. The metadata can be created and queried without accessing the > resource. The resources themselves are resources which are useful only > when they are accessed via HTTP GET. But that is a limitation of the > resource and the REST model, not a limitation of the metadata. EARL and Annotea talk about things like "the third paragraph in a division labelled main in a document at http://xyz/". Are you suggesting they should do so without reference to some content retreived from the URL? > The concept is even more fundamental to the *semantic* web. If you must > do GET on a resource to be able to make assertions about it, you have a > brittle system that will never scale. I never said that you had to. But certain types of assertion can only be meaningful when referenced to content retrieved - typically by GET. -- Nick Kew
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