- From: Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de>
- Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 02:30:32 +0200
- To: Ed Davies <edavies@nildram.co.uk>
- Cc: Technical Architecture Group WG <www-tag@w3.org>
On 31 Aug 2007, at 00:46, Ed Davies wrote: > 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) What about dynamic resources that change over time, and thus have one representation today and a different one tomorrow, like the New York Times homepage? I don't think that any of the representations can be said to *be* that resource. Richard > 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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