On Sun, 2012-04-01 at 10:35 +0200, Michael Brunnbauer wrote: > The whole point about the use of the term IR in HR14 seems to be to say: > > Everything that has a representation has a representation that conveys it's > essential characteristics. > > Is this important ? If yes, should we write it this way ?
FYI, Jonathan Rees has written up a very nice formalization of the relationship between an information resource and a representation -- or in his parlance an "instance" and a "generic information entity" -- in terms of what it means to make metadata statements about them: http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/awwsw/ir/latest/ -- David Booth, Ph.D. http://dbooth.org/ Opinions expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of his employer.
