On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 09:54:41AM +0000, Andy Powell wrote: > So, I'll ask the same question I asked a few days back... if I > make an RDF statement about http://www.w3.org/2001/SMIL20/, am I > making a statement about the abstract SMIL namespace or am I making > a statement about the HTML page that the uri resolves to? > > The only answer I got last time suggested that I'd be making a > statement about the abstract concept. If this is the accepted > view, then I still do not underdstand how I make a statement about > the HTML page that uri resolves to. Presumably, the dc:creator of > the abstract namespace is not the dc:creator of the HTML page at > the namespace uri - so there are valid reasons for wanting to make > RDF statements about both. As far as I can tell, > http://www.w3.org/2001/SMIL20/ is the only uri for that HTML page > so I don't see how else I can make a statement about it.
I'm fairl new to RDF, but I would think the difference is roughly <http://www.example.org/someResource> a :Something . vs. [ :href <http://www.example.org/someResource> ; a :SomethingElse ] . just as there's a difference between the string 'mnot' and the concept of me. Cheers, -- Mark Nottingham, Research Scientist Akamai Technologies (San Mateo, CA USA)
