I think it's worth exploring with some care what URIs were meant to be, and how they are being used in practice. In particular, I want to look at what illumination might be contributed from our understanding of how other kinds of identifiers work.
"Identifier persistence requires an organizational commitment."
"No technology, no standard, no identifier scheme, no information architecture will get you persistence."
Exzellentes Post von Chris Messina: URLs sind ein universelles Interface, das dem Benutzer die Freiheit gibt, jede beliebige Quelle anzusteuern. Zunehmend werden sie durch "point-and-click"-Interfaces ersetzt, die auf vorher definierte Angebote führen - am drastischsten bei Apples AppStore.
The goal of this ontology is to model the relationship between an agent, an arbitrary resource, and one or more tags. This relationship is embodied in one or more taggings, which are temporal events associating the actors.
The goal of this ontology is to model the relationship between an agent, an arbitrary resource, and one or more tags. This relationship is embodied in one or more taggings, which are temporal events associating the actors.
"Representations can themselves be considered resources, and hence we can describe them seperately in RDF, if given the predicates and classes we need to do that well. This schema defines classes and predicates for doing exactly that."
L. Sauermann, R. Cyganiak, and M. Völkel. Technical Memo, TM-07-01. DFKI GmbH, Deutsches Forschungszentrum f ür Künstliche Intelligenz GmbH, (February 2007)