>> One can use the Web infrastructure to denote "things"...
>> --Eg: http://www.ivan-herman/me denotes, well, _me_ (not my
>> Home page, not my foaf file, but _me_!)
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 09:36, Karen Coyle <lists_at_kcoyle.net> wrote:
> Yes, it does denote him. And it is neither his home page nor his foaf file
> (actually, there's nothing there).
I have one too; http://shelter.nu/me.html, and mine is both a
locator and a subject identifier. You use the former (locator) for
human intervention, and the latter (subject identifier) for formal
identification. If the former exist in a distributed identity
management system with multiple identifiers, then you've got what you
need in terms of unbiased and directed subject identities.
> Actually, I see library data as metadata for real world things, as well.
> Although not in the URI sense, we do identify books and cds and other real
> world items. That's one of the huge values of our metadata ... that we've
> created pretty good quality metadata for a whole bunch of real world items
> that no one else has metadata for. Admittedly, we need to re-structure the
> data, but in terms of content, we've got it.
I've always been skeptical of the claims of the quality of this meta
data (mostly from years of hacking around in it; the human prose
contained within sucks for computational consumption), but I'll say
this much; in order to clean up what you've got and make it as
valuable as you claim, breaking it up into semantic bits is probably
the best thing that could happen to it and just might prove you right.
:)
Regards,
Alex
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