- From: Michael(tm) Smith <mike@w3.org>
- Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2009 14:54:15 +0900
- To: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>
- Cc: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>, "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@gbiv.com>, Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com>, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, W3C TAG <www-tag@w3.org>
"Michael(tm) Smith" <mike@w3.org>, 2009-08-02 14:42 +0900: > Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>, 2009-08-01 22:14 -0400: > > > I would like to see what the documents all look like if edited to use the > > words Document and Thing, and eliminate Resource. That's my best bet as to > > two english words which mean as close as we can get to what we want. Note > > however that the web is a new system, a design in which new concepts are > > created, so we can't expect english words to exist to capture exactly the > > concepts. So we take those nearby and abuse them as little as we can as far > > as we can tell at the time, and then write them in initial caps to recognize > > that that is what we have done. > > I wonder if Content and Thing or Contents and Things might also > work. And when it's necessary to refer to non-Things in singular, > "an instance of Content". (I do realize that's a lot more > cumbersome than Document.) Or maybe even "Content Instance" (CI). Slightly less cumbersome, and also has the advantage of being more obviously a specific term of art. --Mike -- Michael(tm) Smith http://people.w3.org/mike/
Received on Sunday, 2 August 2009 05:54:32 UTC