Re: Real-world concept URIs

2014-07-18 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 7/16/14 9:55 AM, Pieter Colpaert wrote: Hi list, Short version: I want real-world concepts to be able to have a URI without a http://;. You cannot transfer any real-world concept over an Internet protocol anyway. Why I would consider changing this can be * If you don't agree, why? *

Re: Real-world concept URIs

2014-07-18 Thread Pieter Colpaert
Hi Kingsley, Thank you very much for your reply! Very satisfied with this response. This answer should be in text books. I would summarize this thread as: Question: Why do we refer to real-world concepts using HTTP URIs? You cannot GET them over HTTP anyway? Answer: Because words denote

Re: Real-world concept URIs

2014-07-17 Thread Luca Matteis
I never really understood the difference between real world objects and their representations. I've never had to talk about the representation of something, so I always just dealt with real world URIs. I have http://zebra. For me http://zebra represents the animal zebra. If people want to know

Re: Real-world concept URIs

2014-07-17 Thread Pieter Colpaert
Hi Luca, Thank you for your reply. An example why you would need it is to add more statements for e.g., hypermedia applications which need to know how to navigate. For instance, our zebra has many owners (and these owners don't fit on one page): HTTP GET http://zebra#animal Response:

Re: Real-world concept URIs

2014-07-17 Thread Gannon Dick
Hi Pieter, I disagree, pending clarification. If the transportation costs of (RESTful) URI's - an Ontology - between Top Level Domains TLD is Zero - more specifically exp(Zero)-1=Zero, then the URI's are entangled (as in Quantum Entanglement). In this case, the URI's are not broken, but

Re: Real-world concept URIs

2014-07-17 Thread Nandana Mihindukulasooriya
Hi Pieter, If we still stick with URIs (as a name but not a locator) [1] but with a different scheme, say things or something, your solution will still work the same, right? There are already URN/DOI to URL resolvers [3], so similarly but rather than using a service, your URIs identifying real

Re: Real-world concept URIs

2014-07-17 Thread Ruben Verborgh
When do people need to refer to the document or the representation of the animal zebra? If we want to differentiate between I like the zebra; I don't like the document about the zebra. Or more real-world examples: a document about Barack Obama has a different creation date than Barack

Re: Real-world concept URIs

2014-07-17 Thread Luca Matteis
On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 7:29 PM, Ruben Verborgh ruben.verbo...@ugent.be wrote: If we want to differentiate between I like the zebra; I don't like the document about the zebra. But why do they need to be on the same domain? Several parties on different domains can represent information

Re: Real-world concept URIs

2014-07-17 Thread Ruben Verborgh
But why do they need to be on the same domain? They don't need to be. Several parties on different domains can represent information about the animal zebra. They just seem like different things to me. They are, indeed.

Re: Real-world concept URIs

2014-07-17 Thread David Booth
Recommended reading would be Cool URIs for the Semantic Web: http://www.w3.org/TR/cooluris/ In spite of the advice in that document, people can and sometimes do use the same URI for both the real world entity (such as a zebra) and the document that describes that zebra. Doing so may be

Re: Real-world concept URIs

2014-07-17 Thread Nandana Mihindukulasooriya
Hi Pieter, On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 7:36 PM, Pieter Colpaert pieter.colpa...@ugent.be wrote: Hi Nandana, Thank you a lot for your clear reply! On 2014-07-17 19:17, Nandana Mihindukulasooriya wrote: Hi Pieter, If we still stick with URIs (as a name but not a locator) [1] but with a

RE: Real-world concept URIs

2014-07-17 Thread Pete Rivett
3794 Follow me on Twitter @rivettp or http://twitter.com/rivettp -Original Message- From: David Booth [mailto:da...@dbooth.org] Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2014 11:18 AM To: public-lod@w3.org Subject: Re: Real-world concept URIs Recommended reading would be Cool URIs for the Semantic Web

Re: Real-world concept URIs

2014-07-17 Thread Gannon Dick
If we want to differentiate between      I like the zebra;      I don't like the document about the zebra. But why do they need to be on the same domain? Several parties on different domains can represent information about the animal zebra. They just seem like different things to

Re: Real-world concept URIs

2014-07-17 Thread Paul Houle
I can't speak for other countries in North, South and Central America, but I can say the that United States does not have an official language, even though people who hate immigrants wish it did. ᐧ On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Gannon Dick gannon_d...@yahoo.com wrote: If we want to

Re: Real-world concept URIs

2014-07-17 Thread Gannon Dick
? --Gannon On Thu, 7/17/14, Paul Houle ontolo...@gmail.com wrote: Subject: Re: Real-world concept URIs To: Gannon Dick gannon_d...@yahoo.com Cc: Ruben Verborgh ruben.verbo...@ugent.be, Luca Matteis lmatt...@gmail.com, Pieter Colpaert pieter.colpa