Re: registering info: uris?

From: Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress <rden_at_nyob>
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 12:28:43 -0400
To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
From: "Jonathan Rochkind" <rochkind_at_JHU.EDU>
>  There are all sorts of useful identifiers I use in my work every day that 
> can not be automatically dereferenced.

Even more to the point: there is no sound definition of "dereference".  To 
dereference a resource means to retrieve a representation of it. There has 
never been any agreement within the w3c of what constitutes a 
representation.

--Ray 
Received on Wed Apr 01 2009 - 12:30:29 EDT