- From: Ed Davies <edavies@nildram.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 23:46:47 +0100
- To: Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de>
- CC: Technical Architecture Group WG <www-tag@w3.org>
Richard Cyganiak wrote: > 2. This boils down to a question wether to provide a representation > of a resource, or instead provide an associated description of the > resource (by means of a 303 redirect or hash truncation). What is the > difference between a representation and a description? A representation _is_ the thing (to some not quite fully defined level of approximation) whereas a description is only _about_ the thing. A huge file giving the exact position and state of every particle in a car (in a universe without quantum uncertainty) still wouldn't _be_ the car whereas a representation of a web page with all the styling markup removed would still be, to some extent, that web page.
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