Re: article on URIs, is this material that can be used by the SWEO IG?

Marc de Graauw wrote:
> ...
> On a side note, in fact the 303 solution is not that different from subject
> identifiers. Both assert whether a URI refers to an information resource or
> not. In the XML serialization of Topic Maps, if a URI refers to an
> information resource it is embedded in a <resourceRef> element, otherwise in
> a <subjectIndicatorRef> element. So, tweaking the Topic Map definitions a
> bit, it would be fair to say a 303 response means the dereferenced URI is a
> subject indicator ...

It doesn't follow that the destination of a 303 has a
specific topic so <subjectIndicatorRef> is not
equivalent.

Using the examples from the httpRange-14 draft finding
you could have these URIs

   http://example.com/ontology/metre
   http://example.com/ontology/kilogram
   http://example.com/ontology/watt

all 303 to

   http://example.com/ontology/SI/Information

which then provides RDF and/or HTML descriptions of
hundreds of SI units, no one of which can be said to
be the primary topic of the resource.

Ed Davies.

Received on Wednesday, 6 June 2007 10:23:22 UTC