{"id":7,"date":"2008-02-23T23:05:12","date_gmt":"2008-02-24T07:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roy.gbiv.com\/untangled\/2008\/resource-resource-wherefore-art-thou-resource"},"modified":"2008-02-23T23:05:12","modified_gmt":"2008-02-24T07:05:12","slug":"resource-resource-wherefore-art-thou-resource","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roy.gbiv.com\/untangled\/2008\/resource-resource-wherefore-art-thou-resource","title":{"rendered":"Resource, Resource! Wherefore art thou Resource?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Noah Mendelsohn posted a pre-draft about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/2001\/tag\/2008\/02\/RepresentationResources.html\">some thoughts on resources, information resources and representations<\/a>, in which he tries to make sense of the never-ending debate on <strike>httpRange-14<\/strike> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/2001\/tag\/group\/track\/issues\/57\">httpRedirections-57<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been vaguely following <a href=\"http:\/\/lists.w3.org\/Archives\/Public\/www-tag\/2008Feb\/0013.html\">this discussion<\/a> on the W3C TAG mailing list for some time and, against my better judgement, I feel a need to comment on the suggestions. Actually, that&#8217;s not quite right, since I really don&#8217;t have any polite comments to make on the suggestions, and I wouldn&#8217;t want to offend my friends on the TAG.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, I&#8217;ll just ask a few questions about this one sentence:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A key requirement of the Semantic Web is that URIs be used<br \/>\nto identify resources unambiguously.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What makes that a key <strong>requirement<\/strong> of the Semantic Web?<\/li>\n<li>What makes the TAG think it is feasible to satisfy that requirement?<\/li>\n<li>How will the TAG know when the requirement is (or isn&#8217;t) satisfied?<\/li>\n<li>If someone can show that this requirement is inherently unsatisfiable, doesn&#8217;t that imply the Semantic Web will never happen?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Or, is it <strong>not a requirement<\/strong>, and all these proposals are just an excuse to avoid designing a Semantic Web that would actually work within the same problem space of the current Web?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want the Web to constrain what people do: the Web<br \/>\nis not there to constrain society. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s there to model society<br \/>\nin its completeness, in its entirety. <em>[Tim Berners-Lee, 1994]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Have we forgotten why?<\/p>\n<p>On the Web, millions of people mint URIs, and millions more use them in references. Millions of human beings, conversing over time, with an occasional URI thrown in to refer to a subject under discussion.<\/p>\n<p>When was the last time you had an unambiguous discussion?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noah Mendelsohn posted a pre-draft about some thoughts on resources, information resources and representations, in which he tries to make sense of the never-ending debate on httpRange-14 httpRedirections-57. I&#8217;ve been vaguely following this discussion on the W3C TAG mailing list for some time and, against my better judgement, I feel a need to comment on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[14,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roy.gbiv.com\/untangled\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roy.gbiv.com\/untangled\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roy.gbiv.com\/untangled\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roy.gbiv.com\/untangled\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roy.gbiv.com\/untangled\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roy.gbiv.com\/untangled\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roy.gbiv.com\/untangled\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roy.gbiv.com\/untangled\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roy.gbiv.com\/untangled\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}