On 3/25/12 1:07 PM, Niklas Lindström wrote:
To clarify, what do I mean by "another information resource"? Isn't a representation of a resource also a resource, ultimately different from the thing itself?
Yes!We have the following in play, but never easily discernible from Semantic Web and Linked Data narratives:
1. A Document (a Resource) -- bears representations of whatever2. A Descriptor Document (a subClassOf Document) -- specifically bears representation of the description of an unambiguously named subject
3. An unambiguously named subject or entity .The term "Resource" continues to be used carelessly and the net effect is utter confusion :-( When reading Semantic Web (and even Linked Data literature) it's very easy for the untrained eye to assume 1-3 are Web resources. The subject of a description may or may not be a Web realm entity. Its just something that's caught the interest of an author (creator) of a description documentation.
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