RE: Proposed issue: site metadata hook

   

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ext Jos De_Roo [mailto:jos.deroo@agfa.com]
> Sent: 12 February, 2003 17:49
> To: Stickler Patrick (NMP/Tampere)
> Cc: Jos De_Roo; timbl@w3.org; www-tag@w3.org; www-tag-request@w3.org
> Subject: RE: Proposed issue: site metadata hook
> 
> 
> 
> > > Sorry to stumble in and maybe I'm totally lost in all this
> > > threads, but right now I fail to see the need for MGET...
> >
> > Then please read the entire thread ;-)
> 
> I have a holiday ;-)

So all the more time to read! ;-)

> > Jos, what if I have a URI <http://example.com/foo> and nothing
> > more, and want to know what it means and want to ask the server
> > http://example.com to tell me. How do I do that?
> >
> > That is what this thread is about. How to obtain a description of
> > a resource when all one has is the URI denoting it and *nothing*
> > else.
> 
> Well, on the SW that would be a wrong premis
> (so everything could come out) as you always
> have at least some triples in which that URI
> is used...

Right, but that's the point. We're not "on" the SW yet. The discussion
is about the interface between the Web and the Semantic Web and
how the Web architecture should/must be extended to allow for 
obtaining knowledge from web authorities about resources having
URIs grounded in that authority.

Once you have that information, and are doing SW things with it,
then the Web is out of scope.

Cheers,

Patrick

Received on Wednesday, 12 February 2003 12:07:09 UTC