DISQUS

Dominic Sayers · 2 years ago

Have you read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Maybe you couldn't see the capcha by design...

Seth Ladd · 2 years ago

The thing that is tricky about all of this, is that a URI sure enough identifies a singular resource. However, that Resource can belong to an infinite amount of classes. That is, the Resource can mean many different things to many different people. This is both a strength and a weakness, and leads to much trickiness when implementing RDF.

The more vague a Resource is defined, the more useful it is, because people don't get caught up in over thinking, "Do I match the intended meanings?"

So, if RDF is to work, implementers have to allow for mechanisms to help humans deal with the many interpretations of the Resources those URIs identify.