What Do URIs Mean Anyway?を巡って

Jeni Tennison @JeniT@mastodon.me.uk @JeniT

Getting close to completing a blog post on httpRange-14. Bet you can't wait!

Jeni Tennison @JeniT@mastodon.me.uk @JeniT

Blogged "What Do URIs Mean Anyway?" http://t.co/5r1rVgO

Ian Davis @iand

RT @JeniT Blogged "What Do URIs Mean Anyway?" http://t.co/5r1rVgO <- good stuff but I'm not convinced we need to live with ambiguity

Jeni Tennison @JeniT@mastodon.me.uk @JeniT

@iand How do you think we can prevent it?

Ian Davis @iand

@JeniT can't prevent it, but we can detect it just like we detect inconsistencies in owl.

Jeni Tennison @JeniT@mastodon.me.uk @JeniT

@iand And then? Do you ignore data about URIs that are used in ambiguous ways?

Ian Davis @iand

@JeniT its up to the consumer. They can ignore all or choose to review their prior knowledge, ie the schema that says there's a conflict

Leigh Dodds @ldodds

@iand but @jenit was proposing ways to address and avoid ambiguity, from a standpoint of accepting that it will be present

Leigh Dodds @ldodds

@JeniT one powerful thing about the analogy with link integrity is that we now have services that help avoid that

Jeni Tennison @JeniT@mastodon.me.uk @JeniT

@ldodds Exactly.

Leigh Dodds @ldodds

@JeniT ...we could place *more* effort on creating useful touchstones for well described URIs, and encourage distributed annotation of those

Ian Davis @iand

@ldodds yeah, I'm not strongly disagreeing with @jenit but want to avoid any suggestion a URI can mean 2 or more things at once