- From: Jean-Jacques Moreau <jean-jacques.moreau@crf.canon.fr>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 10:43:38 +0200
- To: "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Cc: www-tag <www-tag@w3.org>
Henry S. Thompson wrote: >_Beethoven's Symphony No. 6_: > http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rmhttp/radio3/symphony6_beethoven_radio3.mp3 > > Actually, that may be enough to some people, but not to all. Who's the director? Which orchestra? What recording date? Besides, this is an MP3 representation, generated by some individual at some bitrate; there might be others. There might also be an SACD or DVD version. The CD may have been remastered from AAD to ADD. It may be in the public domain and come from multiple labels (EMI, DG, ...). What about the original recording tape? What does uniquely define this symphony after all? A printed music sheet? The original manuscript? What if there are several, like in Bruckner's case? What about transcriptions? We all know intuitively what Beethoven's 6th Symphony is, we can all recognize the tune, and yet can't quite point to it so precisely. (This is why hyperlinks matter.) But Roy may be right, this may be best left to the responsability of the document author, not the architecture. The RDF representation of the above resource may be quite long; but a shorter (hierarchical?) version may suffice to most people. JJ.
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