- From: Noah Mendelsohn <nrm@arcanedomain.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 23:18:23 -0400
- To: Jonathan Rees <jar@creativecommons.org>
- CC: www-tag@w3.org
>Very< much appreciated; will reply in detail later but yes, this indeed expected, and I already had it in my informal working list of agenda items. TAG members: [1] is the first entry on the reading list for the F2F. Thank you! Noah [1] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/awwsw/ir/20110517/ On 5/17/2011 9:05 PM, Jonathan Rees wrote: > http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/awwsw/ir/20110517/ is the first of two > drafts relating to ISSUE-57 for us to discuss at the June F2F. The > second, which attacks ISSUE-57 directly by listing current and > potential solutions, should be ready next week. I hope all TAG members > (and others) will read them and comment. > > Apparently I had no action to do this, although I think it's common > knowledge I've been working on it. Noah, if you'd like for me to > assign myself an action to do this, for agenda purposes, I'd be happy > to. > > This draft also relates pretty directly to ISSUE-63 (Metadata > Architecture) and thus to ACTION-282 (draft a finding on same). > However it is much narrower than metadata architecture generally and > therefore does not satisfy ACTION-282. > > Keep in mind that there is a third imagined document, which would be > the output of a community discussion framed by the first two > documents. That's a ways off. > > -Jonathan > > --------- > Abstract > > This note considers the semantics of metadata in which the subject of > the metadata (the "data") is specified using a URI that may be > dereferenced on the Web. This situation is complicated in that agents > might obtain different information on different dereference > operations, raising the question of what metadata is true or not of > the metadata subject. > > It is proposed that the practical purpose of the "information > resource" abstraction in web architecture is mainly to supply suitable > subjects for this kind of metadata. Relating information resources to > metadata in this way makes concrete the value proposition for the rule > that a URI should name the information resource related to dereference > of that URI. It is hoped that this analysis will be of use in future > work aimed at strengthening or modifying consensus around this rule. > >
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