- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 14:07:12 -0700
- To: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
- 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. Actually there must be a URIreference for him. This matters, as the URIref is likely to be in an RDF/XML document which itself has a URI; but that document, unlike Shakespeare, is an information resource. > 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. Not unquestionably. I tried to create something that as authoritatively and unambiguously as possible refers to me: http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes/PatHayes.html but have been told that since I do not perform the HTTP re-direct ritual required by the TAG, it in fact does not. Pat Hayes > >-- >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 -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
Received on Wednesday, 30 May 2007 21:07:19 UTC