- From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
- Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 15:28:09 -0400
- To: Xiaoshu Wang <wangxiao@musc.edu>
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org
Xiaoshu Wang scripsit: > Is a picture of Shakespeare a "representation" or a "description" of > him? IMHO, the essential difference between an information resource and > a non-information resource is only the former can have a > "representation" in the web. In the semantic web, what we talk about is resources, and resources have URIs, so if we are allowed to talk about Shakespeare, there must be a URI for him. If http://www.heritage.org/images/shakespeare.jpg were declared by its owner to refer to Shakespeare, then the content retrieved from that URI would unquestionably be a representation of him. -- John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org> http://www.ccil.org/~cowan It's like if you meet an really old, really rich guy covered in liver spots and breathing with an oxygen tank, and you say, "I want to be rich, too, so I'm going to start walking with a cane and I'm going to act crotchety and I'm going to get liver disease. --Wil Shipley
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