On Mar 24, 2013, at 13:52, Richard Cyganiak <[email protected]> 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.

Right, "the sender asserts that the payload is a representation of the resource 
identified by the Content-Location field-value".

So, the sender (DBpedia) asserts that http://dbpedia.org/resource/Barack_Obama 
is a REPRESENTATION of the resource http://dbpedia.org/resource/Barack_Obama, 
but the recipient has no way to know that the resource 
http://dbpedia.org/resource/Barack_Obama is a real-world entity…

One really nice way to say that http://dbpedia.org/resource/Barack_Obama is 
real-world entity is for RDF returned by 
http://dbpedia.org/resource/Barack_Obama to say so :)

Regards,
Dave
--
http://about.me/david_wood



> 
> Best,
> Richard

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