On 10/20/2011 01:54 PM, Nathan wrote:
Norman Gray wrote:
Ugh: 'IR' and 'NIR' are ugly obscurantist terms (though reasonable in
their original context). Wouldn't 'Bytes' and 'Thing', respectively,
be better (says he, plaintively)?
Both are misleading, since NIR is the set of all things, and IR is a
proper subset of NIR, it doesn't make much sense to label it "non
information resource(s)" when it does indeed contain information
resources. From that perspective "IR" and "R" makes somewhat more sense.
+1
See also:
http://infoserviceonto.smiy.org/2010/11/25/on-resources-information-resources-and-documents/
;)
Cheers,
Bo
PS: also +1 for Content-Location header + people expect to get some
information when resolving a URI
