- From: Booth, David (HP Software - Boston) <dbooth@hp.com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:09:28 -0400
- To: "Chimezie Ogbuji" <chimezie@gmail.com>, <wangxiao@musc.edu>
- Cc: "Williams, Stuart (HP Labs, Bristol)" <skw@hp.com>, <www-tag@w3.org>
> From: Chimezie Ogbuji > [ . . . ] > The context is important IMHO. If the RDF document has assertions > (rdfs:isDefined By for example) that are unambiguously understood to > point to a model-theoretic pipeline (if you will), then it would be > prudent for agents to go in that direction. Otherwise, you simply > don't know, and follow-your nose would be the next best thing. Incidentally this is precisely one of the reasons why I think it is important architecturally to distinguish between a URI declaration[1] and other assertions about the URI's associated resource: so that an agent can know whether it already has the URI declaration that it wants, and thus should look no further to find one. To put it differently, for a given URI, an application would normally only ever want to use one declaration of that URI, whereas an application may well want to combine many sets of assertions about the URI's resource. 1. URI declaration: http://dbooth.org/2007/uri-decl/ David Booth, Ph.D. HP Software +1 617 629 8881 office | dbooth@hp.com http://www.hp.com/go/software Opinions expressed herein are those of the author and do not represent the official views of HP unless explicitly stated otherwise.
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