Re: URIs

Hi Xiaoshu-- Xiaoshu Wang wrote: Frank, This isn't to deny the usefulness of being able to dereference a URI and get something useful (or to be able to find the RDF or OWL describing a vocabulary when you're trying to process statements employing that vocabulary). I'm merely pointing out tha

RE: URI thoughts

Assuming I have a RDF model of the follows. @prefix rdf: http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#. @prefix dctype: http://dublincore.org/2003/12/08/dctype# rdf:type dctype:Image. A simple model without any closure will contain only thi

RE: URI thoughts

> Perhaps a concrete example could enlighten my difficulty in > understanding the value in: > > 1) 'forcefully' attempting to dereference all URI terms in an > instance graph (which is what is described as a 'full' or > unrestricted Web Closure in http://esw.w3.org/topic/WebClosure) Thanks, C

Re: URI thoughts

Perhaps a concrete example could enlighten my difficulty in understanding the value in: 1) 'forcefully' attempting to dereference all URI terms in an instance graph (which is what is described as a 'full' or unrestricted Web Closure in http://esw.w3.org/topic/WebClosure) 2) In using data r

RE: URI thoughts

> 1) Dereferencing: The dereferencing of a URI to a data record > results in the return of all the "authority managed" > information about it (locally curated data) in the form of a > RDF graph. Outside annotations would not be included unless > the authority provided an open annotative servic

Re: URI thoughts

I think that these valuable ideas can be supplemented by an additional set of properties (here, I am making a perhaps false assumption that Eric's "strawperson" proposal doesn't already anticipate subject identity properties). Appealing to Peircian notions for subject identity is, I believe,

URI thoughts

I often like to put together proposals as "strawmen", in order to provoke discussion while not needing to push a personal agenda through... Based on the URI discussion we are having, and Alan's request to distinguish data records (Entrez, ENSEMBL, Uniprot) clearly from the "biological