- From: Walden Mathews <walden@eqwality.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 10:02:02 -0400
- To: "Bullard, Claude L \(Len\)" <len.bullard@intergraph.com>, "Patrick Stickler" <patrick.stickler@nokia.com>
- Cc: <www-tag@w3.org>
Representations are also solid bits, and time seems comparatively "solid" too. What if a URI is the name of a relation that maps from time to representations? The idea is not new. Walden ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <len.bullard@intergraph.com> To: <Patrick.Stickler@nokia.com> Cc: <www-tag@w3.org> Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 9:49 AM Subject: RE: referendum on httpRange-14 (was RE: "information resource") | | I'm not sure it's useful either. It's just that when one | factors the definitions, URIs are the only solid bits. | Everything else is 'turtles all the way up'. | | That means the web isn't an information space. | It's a name space of opaque identities. | | len | | | From: Patrick.Stickler@nokia.com [mailto:Patrick.Stickler@nokia.com] | | It's an odd thing to do, but I don't see why you can't have e.g. | | <http://example.com/blargh> owl:sameAs | "http://example.com/foo"^^xsd:anyURI . | | Thus, <http://example.com/blargh> identifies the specific | URI "http://example.com.foo". Note that the above statement is not | the same as | | <http://example.com/blargh> owl:sameAs <http://example.com/foo> . | | I.e. in the first case, <http://example.com/blargh> is identifying the | URI, the string conforming to the lexical constraints for URIs, and | is not (necessarily) identifying what the URI "http://example.com/foo" | itself identifies. | | -- | | How having one URI identify another URI would be useful is unclear to me. | | But in principle, a URI is a thing, and if a URI can identify anything, | then one URI can certainly identify another URI. | | And having an RDF description of <http://example.com/blargh> available | allows one to clarify that it identifies a URI, which is quite clear | from the first RDF statement above. | | Patrick | | | | > From: ext Bullard, Claude L (Len) [mailto:len.bullard@intergraph.com] | > Sent: 26 October, 2004 22:49 | > | > A mad thought: if URIs identify resources (not representations), | > and resources are abstract, do URIs only (put verb here) | > other URIs? | | | __________ NOD32 1.907 (20041027) Information __________ | | This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. | http://www.nod32.com | |
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