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Meaning and identity

Started by phildawes · 9 months ago

Seth posted a response to my ‘global identifiers don’t scale’ post that I didn’t expect. His point is that it is the meaning that isn’t consistent across the semantic web, not the identifiers. I agree with him about meaning being inconsis ... Continue reading »

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  • I agree with your statement that GUID scheme scalling universaly is a new kind of utopia.

    My view point is not directly linked to application of unique ids in RFF though. I believe this is the case for a larger scope of which the semantic web is one part...

    I believe you have layed out sensible arguments in your post. If we now take the bad scalability of GUID schemes as a real world's fact, I can conclude that the real world will ultimately rely on a complex mesh of separate GUID schemes (we already have the premices of it, right ;)

    We would need some ways to reconcile these schemes where they intersect. What are your views on how this kind of reconcilation can be modeled with the current semantic tools?

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