Hi Frederick,
But this is just philosophical.... In reality, in my daily working life.... I refers to objects that have properties. I don't care if one name it an infroamtion resource, a web document, a Thing, etc. What I check is: is this URI in one of my triple store? No? Then can I resolve this URI on the web? yes? Is there RDF? Yes? Is this RDF describing this URI? yes? then lets do something with it!
In scenarios where you have the time to look at each resource and make manual/mental disambiguations, this might work. This strategy does not work very well for large-scale information integration, though. When we want to be able to write queries, mappings and make inferences spanning over large heterogeneous information resources, we cannot afford to spend too much time for such disambiguations on a case-by-case basis.
Cheers, Matthias Samwald Semantic Web Company, Austria // DERI Galway, Ireland http://www.semantic-web.at/ http://www.deri.ie/
