[rdfweb-dev] isPrimaryTopicOf and homepage

[Jan Grant]

On Sat, 30 Jul 2005, Masahide Kanzaki wrote:

> At 5:15 PM +0100 05.7.29, Jan Grant wrote:
> >And if you buy that then I've a coherent definition of "homepage" -
> >
> >A homepage of an entity X, is the content (not the URL) available (in
> >whatever form, and possibly that content is variable) by dereferencing
> >a URL that is used to denote X.
> 
> If you get an HTML (or whatever) content by dereferencing an URI, then the
> URI identifies an information resource (a web page), not a person. And if
> you say the URI also identifies an entity X (person), it's just a URI
> collision as WebArch says.

That's not what WebArch says: dereferencing a URI returns a 
(partial) representation (or a description, as TBL put it) of the 
resource referenced. If I claim "I am the resource referenced by 
http://ioctl.org/jan/" then that works fine. You point your browser at 
that, you're going to get a (very partial) description of me.

-- 
jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/
Tel +44 (0)117 9287088 or 3317661   http://ioctl.org/jan/
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