- From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 17:29:38 -0700
- To: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Cc: WWW-Tag <www-tag@w3.org>
Dan Connolly wrote: >> Other resources named >>by URIs may exist entirely apart from the Web. > > > Hmm... that seems contradictory; I'd prefer to leave > "entirely apart from the Web" out of it... Actually, how about "may exist independently of the Web". I.e. if the Web goes away, so does http://www.tbray.org/misc/Tim, but the ISBN doesn't, nor would the person identified by foaf#Dan. > Hmm... I thought what distinguished information resources from > resources in general is that only information resources have > representations (in the webarch sense). I totally disagree. My examples include the RDF namespace and the FOAF thing, both of which have representations, and in fact there are systems that will take that urn:isbn: thing and give you something useful. I can't imagine anything in the universe for which you could decree "there can be no representations". An information resource is something that is primarily information. That's all (I think). -Tim
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