[foaf-dev] foaf:interest seems not very useful, targeting URLs rather than URIs

[Ted Thibodeau Jr]

On Dec 16, 2008, at 06:18 PM, Damian Steer wrote:

> You suggest there's a difference between URIs and URLs?


Rather.

All URLs (Locators) are URIs (Identifiers), but not all URIs are URLs.
Likewise, all URNs (Names) are URIs, but not all URIs are URNs.


I still think that it's much clearer to use URNs than URLs to delineate
interests, but foaf:topic_interest (if stabilized!) does seem a  
reasonable
place to put those, without forcing other changes to existing FOAF  
files.

Be seeing you,

Ted



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