Sunday, December 18, 2005
URI crisis and some good points of view
Casual.info.in.a.bottle - Blog Archive - URI crisis and some good points of view: "My 2 cents
I'm thinking on it and from an RDF point of view i have already some troubles with URIs...
In fact when i want to make a statement about something that has an URL that's no problem... But what about something not in the Net, something like love or a person or a concept...
My understand of RDF world allows me to use my own domain - dagoneye.it - to make URI about all i want and that's it...
Than if i'll found another URI that indicates and identifies the same thing i can make a triple using owl:sameAs property for example...
Remembering the open nature of RDF model...
But if i don't have a domain?
And as we can see using an URI with the http protocol is correct or is it a better solution using the urn prefix?
A URI doesn't have any implicit meaning, but a social meaning derivated from the people use of that URI: the idea of using Wikipedia and Wordnet URLs for concepts identification is a social solution that IMHO it's a very good idea...
We can think that from the project and the efforts of a Semantic Wikipedia where every URL returns the content for the humans but also for the machines ( in RDF of course ) is a permanent evolution of the Web and offers us the URIs to identify things accepted from the community...
And using XRI maybe... [ i don't know enough this initiative to comment on it ]
Another example of the bottom-up design of Internet and the Web
So using this social implication of URIs, better tools and a clear way of producing RDF resources it's the next step: and the comprehension that RDF is still usable alone in small world applications like Shelley Powers efforts show us.."
I'm thinking on it and from an RDF point of view i have already some troubles with URIs...
In fact when i want to make a statement about something that has an URL that's no problem... But what about something not in the Net, something like love or a person or a concept...
My understand of RDF world allows me to use my own domain - dagoneye.it - to make URI about all i want and that's it...
Than if i'll found another URI that indicates and identifies the same thing i can make a triple using owl:sameAs property for example...
Remembering the open nature of RDF model...
But if i don't have a domain?
And as we can see using an URI with the http protocol is correct or is it a better solution using the urn prefix?
A URI doesn't have any implicit meaning, but a social meaning derivated from the people use of that URI: the idea of using Wikipedia and Wordnet URLs for concepts identification is a social solution that IMHO it's a very good idea...
We can think that from the project and the efforts of a Semantic Wikipedia where every URL returns the content for the humans but also for the machines ( in RDF of course ) is a permanent evolution of the Web and offers us the URIs to identify things accepted from the community...
And using XRI maybe... [ i don't know enough this initiative to comment on it ]
Another example of the bottom-up design of Internet and the Web
So using this social implication of URIs, better tools and a clear way of producing RDF resources it's the next step: and the comprehension that RDF is still usable alone in small world applications like Shelley Powers efforts show us.."
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