On 6/12/11 3:42 PM, Richard Cyganiak wrote:
On 12 Jun 2011, at 11:12, Alan Ruttenberg wrote:
I've yet to encounter a person who didn't understand the difference between a
book about Obama and Obama.
This has nothing to do with books about Obama.
It's about the difference between an URI-named resource which can return, say,
a JSON representation of Obama; and a URI-named resource that *is* Obama.
Explaining why using the same URI for both of those supposedly breaks the Web
isn't *quite* that easy.
Best,
Richard
Richard,
It isn't about braking the Web or its AWWW, really. It's about how its
always been when dealing with data via programs. An Object has:
1. Name
2. Representation Address
3. Actual Representation.
I can even articulate this using the much overloaded "Resource" term by
saying: courtesy of Linked Data tweak (or evolution) Web Resources now
has a:
1. Name
2. Representation Address
3. Actual Representation.
Prior to the use of Links for structured data representation a Resource
had a:
1. Representation Address
2. Actual Representation.
It really is as simple as outlined above.
HTTP explicitly includes the ability to negotiate Actual Representation
via mime types.
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