[foaf-dev] strawpoll: migrate from foaf:holdsAccount to foaf:account?

[Richard Cyganiak]

On 25 Aug 2009, at 00:06, Ian Davis wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Richard  
> Cyganiak<richard at cyganiak.de> wrote:
>> +1 for clarifying this. I'll repeat my POV that the URI of an account
>> homepage -- e.g., http://twitter.com/cygri -- is a good URI for the
>> account itself. In the contexts where FOAF is used, requiring these
>> URIs to be distinct would be overengineering. And using the same URI
>> would be super-handy when embedding RDFa in those account homepages.
>
> http://twitter.com/cygri is the URI of a document (it responds with a
> 200 HTTP response code).

Yes.

> I don't think documents are accounts unless accounts have content
> types, character encodings, word counts etc.

No, accounts do not have these properties. Web documents also do not  
necessarily have any of these properties -- think of content  
negotiation, different language versions, change over time. These are  
all properties of *representations*. This is why we distinguish  
resources and representations in web architecture.

So I don't see a contradiction between http://twitter.com/cygri being  
an account and a web document.

Best,
Richard


>
> Ian