I am sympathetic, but... On Mar 23, 2012, at 9:59 AM, Dave Reynolds wrote:
> On 23/03/12 14:33, Pat Hayes wrote: >> >> On Mar 23, 2012, at 8:52 AM, Jonathan A Rees wrote: >> >>> I am a bit dismayed that nobody seems to be picking up on the point >>> I've been hammering on (TimBL and others have also pointed it out), >>> that, as shown by the Flickr and Jamendo examples, the real issue is >>> not an IR/NIR type distinction, but rather a distinction in the >>> *manner* in which a URI gets its meaning, via instantiation (of some >>> generic IR) on the one hand, vs. description (of *any* resource, >>> perhaps even an IR) on the other. The whole >>> information-resource-as-type issue is a total red herring, perhaps the >>> most destructive mistake made by the httpRange-14 resolution. >> >> +1000. There is no need for anyone to even talk about "information >> resources". The important point about http-range-14, which unfortunately it >> itself does not make clear, is that the 200-level code is a signal that the >> URI *denotes* whatever it *accesses* via the HTTP internet architecture. > > Quite, and this signal is what the change proposal rejects. > > The proposal is that URI X denotes what the publisher of X says it denotes, > whether it returns 200 or not. And what if the publisher simply does not say anything about what the URi denotes? After all, something like 99.999% of the URIs on the planet lack this information. What, if anything, can be concluded about what they denote? The http-range-14 rule provides an answer to this which seems reasonably intuitive. What would be your answer? Or do you think there should not be any 'default' rule in such cases? Pat > > In those cases where you want a separate URI Xrdf to denote "the document > containing the steaming pile of RDF triples describing X" then (in addition > to use of 303s) you have the option to include > > X wdr:describedby Xrdf . > > Thus if X denotes a book then you can describe the license for the book and > the license for the description of the book separately. > > Dave > > ------------------------------------------------------------ IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32502 (850)291 0667 mobile phayesAT-SIGNihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes
