- From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
- Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 02:25:10 -0400
- To: Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>
- Cc: Rhys Lewis <rhys@volantis.com>, 'www-tag' <www-tag@w3.org>, 'Jonathan Rees' <jar@creativecommons.org>
Alan Ruttenberg scripsit: > But the problem with "representation" is that lacking any definition > that isn't circular. I didn't think there was any trouble with "representation"; it's just a pile of bits with some metadata, most importantly a media-type. > A person can't even figure out whether its > correct or not, never mind a machine. So really, this isn't an issue > of RDF or OWL or machine understanding and verification. I can't even > get started on the machine stuff because I myself can't figure out > whether someone has done this representation thing correctly or not. Whether a representation properly represents its resource is basically a matter of fiat; it represents if (a) the owner says it does, or (b) the owner's other claims about the resource are consistent with the representation. > In RDF it is impossible to look for > errors except by staring, because it's impossible to have a machine > detect an inconsistency. Well, no worse than prose or mathematics, then. -- Real FORTRAN programmers can program FORTRAN John Cowan in any language. --Allen Brown cowan@ccil.org
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