- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 12:00:19 -0500
- To: wangxiao@musc.edu
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org, "'Linking Open Data'" <linking-open-data@simile.mit.edu>
>Hi, > >Pat Hayes wrote: >>>Sandro, >>> >>>You should read it well: Chris speaks about "the description.......that >>>identifies....". That is not necessarily a name. >> >>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. >I don't know what is the "right" word. Just present a use-case that >Different name can get the SAME description returned. For instance, >I can lumped all the information about my family members in just one >document. Then, when the name of different family members are >dereferenced, the same description (i.e., information document) will >be returned. So, the description is not necessarily OF the thing >identified. It only needs to contain something about the thing >identified, right? Right, thanks. Indeed, it is very hard to make that notion of a description being OF some one thing very precise. Pat > >Xiaoshu -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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