- From: Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de>
- Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 12:44:48 +0200
- To: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>
- Cc: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>, Technical Architecture Group WG <www-tag@w3.org>, Susie Stephens <susie.stephens@gmail.com>
On 27 Sep 2007, at 21:20, Tim Berners-Lee wrote: >> In addition, that final sentence really is ridiculous. "We call >> all these things resources." All WHAT things? It sounds rather as >> though you are saying 'We call everything resources.' > > I agree that that is a terrible word. It is an abuse of the english > word. (Its use is is historical: when Universal Resource > Idemtofiers and Resource Description Format were dreamed up, the > communities were very much thinking of Information resources, such > as educational resources available on the WWW). > > So, Pat, what would be a better word which we should use instead? > The class of all ____ s? The class of which all classes are > subclasses is the class of ____ s? Referent? As in, “the referent of a URI”? > > Tim > > >
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