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<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Phil Dawes' Stuff - Latest Comments in The path from specificity to usefulness</title><link>http://phildawesstuff.disqus.com/</link><description></description><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2007 13:37:44 -0000</lastBuildDate><item><title>Re: The path from specificity to usefulness</title><link>http://www.phildawes.net/blog/2007/01/08/the-path-from-specificity-to-usefulness/#comment-2753517</link><description>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.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;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?"&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;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.</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Seth Ladd</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2007 13:37:44 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: The path from specificity to usefulness</title><link>http://www.phildawes.net/blog/2007/01/08/the-path-from-specificity-to-usefulness/#comment-2753516</link><description>Have you read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Maybe you couldn't see the capcha by design...</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Dominic Sayers</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2007 07:27:57 -0000</pubDate></item></channel></rss>