- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 14:10:48 -0500
- To: "Hans Teijgeler" <hans.teijgeler@quicknet.nl>
- Cc: "'Chris Bizer'" <chris@bizer.de>, "'Frank Manola'" <fmanola@acm.org>, "'Tim Berners-Lee'" <timbl@w3.org>, <www-tag@w3.org>, <semantic-web@w3.org>, "'Linking Open Data'" <linking-open-data@simile.mit.edu>
>Pat, >Please see below at <HT>. >Regards, >Hans > >-----Original Message----- >From: Pat Hayes [mailto:phayes@ihmc.us] >Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 0:02 >To: Hans Teijgeler >Cc: 'Chris Bizer'; 'Frank Manola'; 'Tim Berners-Lee'; www-tag@w3.org; >semantic-web@w3.org; 'Linking Open Data' >Subject: RE: How to name what you get back? was: Terminology Question >concerning Web Architecture and Linked Data > >>Sandro, >> >>You should read it well: Chris speaks about "the description.......that >>identifies....". That is not necessarily a name. > ><PH> True, but Sando's point is that this description is returned when you >use a particular name (URI) to access the thing identified. If you use a >different name of the very same thing, you may well get a different >description returned. So the description is OF the thing identified, but is >ASSOCIATED with the name, in the sense that only this name may get this >particular description returned to you by HTTP. > ><HT> Interesting to note again how important it is to have an unambiguous >definition of the terms we use. When I hear the word "name" I don't think of >"URI", but of something like "Pat Hayes". Now I understand that for you a >URI is a name (rather than an "identifier"), I think that we are in violent >agreement. Ah. Well, good. Let us continue the agreement and abate the violence :-) Pat -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32502 (850)291 0667 cell phayesAT-SIGNihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes
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