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On 5 Nov 2010, at 16:42, Nathan wrote:

> Mischa Tuffield wrote:
>> On 5 Nov 2010, at 15:07, Norman Gray wrote:
>>> Nathan, hello.
>>> 
>>> On 2010 Nov 5, at 14:31, Nathan wrote:
>>> 
>>>> No, using hash URIs would certainly not mean that at all!!
>>>> 
>>>> Use the URI pattern you wanted to use and stick #i or something at the end 
>>>> of each one. Hash URIs *do not* mean you put everything in one document, 
>>>> it simply means that you have one identifier for the doc and one for each 
>>>> thing described within it, whether you put 1, 10 or 100 things in the doc.
>>> OoooK -- I see.  Thanks for that clarification.
>>> 
>>> When I see "the hash-URI pattern", I think of the pattern described in 
>>> <http://www.w3.org/TR/cooluris/#hashuri>, which (as I understand it) is 
>>> what I was effectively describing.  There, <http://example.com/about#alice> 
>>> is the name for alice, and that is described along with a lot of other 
>>> objects in the IR <http://example.com/about>.  As the authors there discuss 
>>> it, this is better for 'small' sets of names, whereas "the slash URI 
>>> pattern" as described there is better for larger ones.
>>> 
>>> The pattern you're describing (I don't know -- a hash-slash-URI?, which has 
>>> one IR per NIR) has a distinct sets of tradeoffs, I think, but has the 
>>> particular advantage that, if every NIR has a hash in it, then the IR/NIR 
>>> distinction can be maintained without any status code gymnastics.
>> Indeed, I think I eluded to this in my email to the "303" thread. The idea 
>> is to have smaller more manageable RDF documents on the web, IMHO targeted 
>> documents are more interesting than ones which talk about a million and one 
>> things. Again, I will try and draw an analogy here; at is stands, sites like 
>> the BBC, have one document per story, there is nothing stopping the BBC from 
>> having one page will all of its content on it, i.e. with each article having 
>> its own #fragment, but it is a lot neater to have a document per story. 
> 
> I don't follow why it's inferred here that if you use a fragment then all 
> information must be in one document?? makes no sense. You can use exactly the 
> same one article per document approach with frags.

Mmm, not at all. The point I was trying (and obviously failed) to make is, that 
if are not using #fragments because you feel that you will have a single 
document with way too many #fragments in it, you probably want to think about 
re-organising your data into more than document. 

Mischa

> 
> Best,
> 
> Nathan
> 

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