[topicmapmail] How to address Web resources with XTM?

[Murray Altheim]

Jan Algermissen wrote:
[...]
> Again: I want to address the service and not what any bits and bytes obtained
> via GET are talking about.
> 
> With RDF this is straightforward (just use the URI of the service in your statements)
> and I don't want Topic Maps to 'fall behind' here.

Jan,

You describe three different things that a URI can represent. You
then say that RDF provides a way to describe the one you want. Now,
either RDF is simply ambiguous about what it represents or it can't
do the other two. A single URI can represent a bunch of different
things (not just the two things you suggest), so it seems pretty
unclear that your problem is going to be solved using plain-jane
XTM *or* RDF. You need to provide some kind of characterization that
states what kind of interpretation you want that URI to have, under
what kind of circumstance. This is the same situation for both XTM
and RDF.

Murray

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