Issue name: 028-RetrievableURIDenotations

Document says too much about the denotation of retrievable URIs

Raised by:

Frank Manola

Raised on:

2002-10-25

Raised in message:

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-rdfcore-wg/2002Oct/0376.html

Target document section reference(s):

http://www.ninebynine.org/wip/RDF-concepts/2002-10-25/rdf-concepts.html#section-URI-Vocabulary
http://www.ninebynine.org/wip/RDF-concepts/2002-10-25/rdf-concepts.html#xtocid103660

Status:

Closed

Last updated:

2002-11-08

Owner:

Graham Klyne

Details

In section 2.4.2 the draft says:  "The label on a node indicates what
that node is meant to represent...Some URIrefs may indicate web
resources, and a node thus labelled denotes that resource.  Other
URIrefs represent abstract ideas or values rather than a retrievable Web
resource...".

It seems to me that we can't decide in our concepts document what
URIrefs denote (especially since RDF doesn't know whether a URIref is
that of a retrievable Web resource or not).  If I write triples

 ex:corporateName "The MITRE Corporation"

with the intent that  denotes The MITRE
Corporation, it may be a poor choice of URIref for The MITRE
Corporation, but that's still what it denotes, right?  On the other
hand, if what Section 2.4.2 says is correct, it seems to me that the
Model Theory ought (if it doesn't already) state that what the URIrefs
of retrievable Web resources denote is predefined.

History

2002-10-25: Raised

See: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-rdfcore-wg/2002Oct/0376.html

Section 2.4.2 is too prescriptive with respect to what retrievable URIs denote.

2002-10-29: Assigned

GK to rework.

2002-10-29: Comment

Wording gets denotation too bound up with retrievability of URI.

Also section 5.2: two distinct ideas are conflated here. Need to back out of the denotational commitment for retrievable URIs, which is out of scope, and focus on the fragment issue.

2002-11-04: Response

Sections revised to say less about retrieval using URIs.

2002-11-08: Closed

See: http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-rdf-concepts-20021108/#xtocid103660

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