On 24 Mar 2009, at 13:01, Kingsley Idehen wrote:
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Bijan,
Is "Identity" important or not? That's the question here.
But it's not a well-defined question.
But let me make a well-defined version (not meant to capture your
question, but just to be clear example). In XSD, 1.0^^xsd:double is
not identical (is numerically distinct from) 1.0^^xsd:decimal. For
counting successors, identity is critical. For numeric equality (for
a given equality theory) and arithmetic (under that theory) it isn't.
Is granularity important or not? A variation of the statement above.
I don't see how that is a variation of any variant of the question
above.
303s are just about "Identity" at the datum level within the
context of the Web when using a particular form of HTTP based URI
scheme (the Slash based URI).
I don't understand that at all.
Should we be able to reference a datum and de-reference a
representation of its description via the Web?
Sometimes? Maybe? I don't know? I'm close to not caring? I don't see
the big impact on engineering, frankly, at a substantial level. It
would depend on the context, the notion of datum, etc. etc.
Again, I prefer operational descriptions here. I'm being perfectly
honest and as charitable as I know how when I say I have no idea what
the "datum level within the context of the Web" *is*. Or, actually,
why I should care about it when building an ontology.
And I am not naive in these matters.
Cheers,
Bijan.