Monday, November 15, 2004
SkosDev/IdentityCrisis - ESW Wiki
SkosDev/IdentityCrisis - ESW Wiki
"Working Around the Identity Crisis
Let me try to sum up what I understand as the 'identity crisis' in as few words as possible:
If you use an HTTP URI as an identifier for something other than a web document (such as an abstract concept) then you can run into problems. The problems arise when there just happens to be a web document at the end of that same URI, which you find when you plug that URI into the address bar of your favourite browser.
The problem is that you can have one URI identifying two distinct things. Obviously a unique identifier isn't much good if it doesn't uniquely identify anything. "
"Working Around the Identity Crisis
Let me try to sum up what I understand as the 'identity crisis' in as few words as possible:
If you use an HTTP URI as an identifier for something other than a web document (such as an abstract concept) then you can run into problems. The problems arise when there just happens to be a web document at the end of that same URI, which you find when you plug that URI into the address bar of your favourite browser.
The problem is that you can have one URI identifying two distinct things. Obviously a unique identifier isn't much good if it doesn't uniquely identify anything. "
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