Kingsley Idehen wrote:
On 11/11/10 9:00 AM, David Booth wrote:
On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 07:23 +0100, Jiří Procházka wrote:
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I think it is flawed trying to enforce "URI == 1 thing"
Exactly right. The "URI == 1 thing" notion is myth #1 in "Resource
Identity and Semantic Extensions: Making Sense of Ambiguity":
http://dbooth.org/2010/ambiguity/paper.html#myth1
It is a good *goal*, but it is inherently unachievable.
Are you implying that a URI -- an Identifier -- doesn't have a Referent
(singular)?
http://kingsley.idehen.name/dataspace/person/kidehen#this does not name
you, it's not a name for you, or the name for you.
It's a name (identifier for the purpose of referencing) of "#this, as
described by http://kingsley.idehen.name/dataspace/person/kidehen"; and
how "#this, as described by
http://kingsley.idehen.name/dataspace/person/kidehen"; is ultimately
interpreted to be, depends entirely on context and application.
> If so, what is the URI identifying?
It's identifying, or referring to, "x, as described by y" and what the
description identifies is open to interpretation and context (a human?
an agent? a father? a trusted-man? a holder of X? a bearer of Y?).
Best,
Nathan
