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The path from specificity to usefulness

Started by phildawes · 9 months ago

I tried to comment on Seth’s post, but I think the comments on his blog are a bit broken at the moment (the capcha question wasn’t rendering, so I couldn’t answer it!). I guess I’ll trackback instead:
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  • Dominic Sayers

    2 years ago

    Have you read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

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