On 4/1/12 12:31 PM, Michael Brunnbauer wrote:
Hello Kingsley,Everything that has a representation has a representation that conveys it's essential characteristics.[...]Aren't we somehow losing the fundamental fact that all resources on the Web are supposed to be bear self-describing content, constrained by mime type. That when all is said and done, irrespective of mime type, all Web resources are Information Resources.Your last sentence is what my sentence above says. In http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/uddp-20120229/, an IR is defined as something that has a representation that conveys the essential characteristics of it. We can get rid of the term information resource by putting something like the above statement about representations in the papers - if I am not the only one who thinks that things are easier to understand this way :-)
Yes, but in the context of RDF a triple can be seen as conveying information about the referent of a URI. This information can take the form of a description or a more specific definition.
Resources always bear 'information' the question ultimately boils down to what kind of information, subject to the Web system (dimension or aspect) in question :-)
Regards, Michael Brunnbauer
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