- From: John Cowan <cowan@locke.ccil.org>
- Date: Wed, 24 May 100 10:51:09 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Wdehora@cromwellmedia.co.uk (Bill dehOra)
- Cc: xml-uri@w3.org
Bill dehOra scripsit:
>
>
> :brick://us/ny/nyc/13%20%E.%203rd%20St.?side=east&course=11&seq=25
>
> Now, if you can explain me how to access that particular brick via the
> web...assuming of course we can agree on what referenced things are (we
> could argue about where the brick stops being the brick and so on).
Of course I can't. But accessing is not the only operation that
exists on the Web, particularly the semantic Web. I can write
perfectly correct metadata, thus:
<rdf:Description about=
"brick://us/ny/nyc/13%20%E.%203rd%20St.?side=east&course=11&seq=25">
<color>red</color>
</rdf:Description>
> Sophistry aside, I think it's safe to say we are dealing with electronic
> resources, and while there may be some kind of intuitive or commonsense
> ('obvious') correllation between things that are not in the web, such as the
> entity John Cowan or Bill de hÓra or a particular brick, any representations
> of these entities within the web that can be designated, as you say via the
> URI scheme, are just that, representations of things, not the things
> themselves.
No, I think in the above case that I am providing a datum about *the brick*,
not about some representation of it.
--
John Cowan cowan@ccil.org
Yes, I know the message date is bogus. I can't help it.
--me, on far too many occasions
Received on Wednesday, 24 May 2000 10:28:21 UTC