RE: Using ontologies to compare resources (WAS: The range of the HTTP dereference function) from Joshua Allen on 2002-03-28 (www-tag@w3.org from March 2002)

From: Joshua Allen <joshuaa@microsoft.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 08:47:40 -0800
To: "Miles Sabin" <miles@mistral.co.uk>, "www-tag" <www-tag@w3.org>
Message-ID: <4F4182C71C1FDD4BA0937A7EB7B8B4C104B616B8@red-msg-08.redmond.corp.microsoft.com>

>   http://www.markbaker.ca/ qua person is Mark Baker
> 
>   http://www.markbaker.ca/ qua image looks-like
>      http://www.joethomas.ca/ qua image
> 
> where 'qua P' is a disambiguating operator taking an ambiguous URI
> (which, because ambiguious, doesn't identify any particular

That seems most appropriate to me, as well -- this is trivial to
represent in triples, and the "qua image" is the part that would be
appropriate to be catalogued in an ontology somewhere.

And of course, all of this only matters if we are going to let a URI be
overloaded to represent multiple resources, which I am not so sure is a
good idea (what exactly is the benefit of all that added complexity?)

Received on Thursday, 28 March 2002 11:48:20 UTC