On 6/11/11 5:55 PM, Richard Cyganiak wrote:
I don't think that's correct at all.http://schema.org/Person is the class of people and is equivalent to foaf:Person. It's just that the schema.org designers don't seem to care much about the distinction between information resources and angels and pinheads. This is the prevalent attitude outside of this mailing list and we should come to terms with this.
Yes, until we demonstrate tangible value via useful real world applications that make a difference. Thus, outside this community, the deeper (and actual) value of de-reference (indirection) and address-of operations handling via Linked style URIs will remain mysterious and speculative.
A long time ago (pre. DNS) folks where uncertain about the value of associating names with IP addresses. Eventually, DNS caught on and the rest is history. We're repeating the journey with Linked Data (which is really DataDNS or DataObjectNameServices), end game will be the same :-)
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