- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 00:13:06 -0700
- To: Xiaoshu Wang <wangxiao@musc.edu>
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org
>>I think the core of the concept "information resource" is that it's >>a resource that we are willing to identify with its representations. >>A facsimile of the First Folio, or even a faithful textual transcription, >>just *is* the First Folio, as much so as any of the 40-odd surviving >>printed copies; but nobody would think that a picture of Shakespeare >>really *is* Shakespeare, although it's certainly a representation of him. >> >Is a picture of Shakespeare a "representation" or a "description" of him? Its certainly not a description. I would say it is a representation: indeed, this usage was once the main meaning of the word 'representation'. > IMHO, the essential difference between an information resource and >a non-information resource is only the former can have a >"representation" in the web. BUt now one has to ask, in what sense of 'representation'? There is a (now rather large and well-established) usage in which a description is a kind of representation, and in particular a description in a formal language like OWL is a representation of the thing described. In this sense, having a representation on the Web does not distinguish anything from anything. Pat Hayes -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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