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Re: Are URIs Resources? (WAS RE: Re: Non-infoset)

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• Subject: Re: Are URIs Resources? (WAS RE: Re: Non-infoset)
• From: Bill de hÓra <bill.dehora@p...>
• Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 20:56:26 +0100
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Bart Schuller wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 06:37:12PM +0200, Jan Algermissen wrote:
> 
>>and I have never ever had any problems with that decision. I believe 
>>that a technology itself gets to define what their 'elements' are and 
>>not whoever uses the technology.
>>
>>A nice example of this is XTM (Topic Maps applied to XML/Web) which 
>>implicitly makes the assumption that URIs allways identify Documents 
>>(aka 'addressable subjects') and NEVER!! abstract concepts (aka 
>>'non-addressable subjects'). How can a technology (Topic Maps) that 
>>*uses* terms and infrastructure of another technology re-define the 
>>terms? Makes no sense to me.
> 
> 
> It makes no sense because it isn't true. It explicitly *DOES* use URIs
> in precisely these two ways. See for example
> 
> http://www.topicmaps.org/xtm/1.0/#def-subject-indicator
> 
> 
> Now from what I've read about RDF it seems that too uses URIs in these
> different ways, but fails to make the distinction, so you can never be
> sure whether a statement talks about a document or about the subject of
> the document.

According to its Model Theory, RDF only 'uses' URIs in one way, as names 
denoting resources. There's no distinction to be had.

cheers
Bill

• References:
  • Are URIs Resources? (WAS RE: Re: Non-infoset)
    • From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <len.bullard@i...>
  • Re: Are URIs Resources? (WAS RE: Re: Non-infoset)
    • From: Jan Algermissen <jalgermissen@t...>
  • Re: Are URIs Resources? (WAS RE: Re: Non-infoset)
    • From: Bart Schuller <schuller+xml-dev@l...>

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