<delurk> Amen! Amen! Amen! <sing>Hallelujah!</sing>. After over a decade of angels dancing on pinheads, and coming dangerously close to reinventing the topic/occurrence dichotomy with httprange-14, we once again find ourselves back in the untidy but happy world of common sense. Well done TAG! </delurk>
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 2:49 AM, Jeni Tennison <j...@jenitennison.com>wrote: > Dear public-lod, RDF WG, > > Some of you will have seen that the First Public Working Draft of "URLs in > Data" has been published by the TAG [1]. > > This document is the outcome of the call for change proposals [2] for the > TAG's 2005 decision on httpRange-14 [3]. > > The document purposefully does not address the issue of what a URI > 'identifies' or how to discover additional information about it (beyond > best practice that has been documented elsewhere). It aims instead to > clarify the circumstances in which different communities of practice may > draw different conclusions about the content of a document on the web, and > how to avoid this by having clear definitions for the properties you use > when publishing data that uses URIs. > > For RDF and linked data, the implication is that applications should focus > on the statements that are being asserted about a given URI in the data > that they have (from whatever source) to determine what to do. To avoid > misinterpretation and misuse, and particularly where there's the > possibility of ambiguity (eg 'license' or 'creator'), vocabulary authors > should state whether a given property applies to the content retrieved from > the subject URI or to something that content describes. > > The TAG does not intend to work further on these issues in the immediate > future, except to respond to and integrate comments on this document. > Please send any comments on the document to www-...@w3.org. > > Cheers, > > Jeni > > [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/urls-in-data/ > [2] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/uddp/change-proposal-call.html > [3] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2005Jun/0039.html > -- > Jeni Tennison > http://www.jenitennison.com/ > > > > > > -- Uche Ogbuji http://uche.ogbuji.net Founding Partner, Zepheira http://zepheira.com http://wearekin.org http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/author/uogbuji/ http://copia.ogbuji.net http://www.linkedin.com/in/ucheogbuji http://twitter.com/uogbuji