On 24/03/13 17:52, Richard Cyganiak wrote:
On 24 Mar 2013, at 17:39, Kingsley Idehen <[email protected]> wrote:
Thus, if a client de-references the URI <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Barack_Obama>
and it gets a 200 OK from the server combined with
<http://dbpedia.org/page/Barack_Obama> in the Content-Location response header, the
client (user agent) can infer the following:
1. <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Barack_Obama> denotes the real-world entity
'Barack Obama' .
Why can a client make this inference? I can't see any basis for the inference
that the URI identifies a “real-world entity”. The described interaction does
not provide any information regarding the nature of the identified resource,
AFAICT.
Best,
Richard
Agreed. And I don't like the 'give a 200 and trust clients to spot the
header' approach. I especially don't like that the header will become a
'we can add that later' academic ideal and we'll effectively lose the
NIR/IR distinction altogether (if we already haven't).
Barry
