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Re: Utilizing the Web's Whole Information Space, i.e.,Mechanis

• To: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@m...>
• Subject: Re: Utilizing the Web's Whole Information Space, i.e.,Mechanisms/Patterns of Information Usage and Formation?
• From: Frank Manola <fmanola@a...>
• Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 11:08:13 -0500
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Costello, Roger L. wrote:
> Peter Hunsberger wrote:
> 
> 
>>So, first you need to decide what the real
>>fundamentals of your information space are: 
>>HTTP, URIs, HTML, XML, etc.
> 
> 
> My interest is at a higher level.  I would like to abstract away from
> specific "formats", and understand the general mechanisms/patterns that
> have emerged on the Web for formulating and delivering "information".
> 

Roger--

I think you'll find that most people who think about the Web at this 
level (including Tim Berners-Lee) think that URIs are fundamental, 
whatever they may think about the other stuff.  If you want to abstract 
away from URIs as a specific format, you can say that a common way of 
identifying and referring to specific things is necessary if you're 
going to create a "world wide web".  Without a generally-used way of 
linkiing information together, it's hard to create a "web".  Instead, 
you tend to get little islands of information.  Sure, you could create 
an alternative way of doing that, but it would tend to break what's 
already there.

--Frank

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