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Making Uris Dereferenceable | Ontogenealogy
How URIs identifying information and non-information resources are dereferenced
URI Dereferencing is the process of looking up a URI on the Web in order to get information about the referenced resource. The W3C’s Dereferencing HTTP URIs distinguished between how URIs identifying information and non-information resources are dereferenced: Information…
The Library Catalogue In The New Discovery Environment: Some Thoughts | Ariadne
We cannot expect the user to come to the library any more
In a pre-network world, where information resources were relatively scarce and attention relatively abundant, users built their workflow around the library. In a networked world, where information resources are relatively abundant, and attention is relatively scarce, we cannot…
The Tao Of Topic Maps
Facet (of a topic map)
Sometimes it is convenient to be able to assign metadata to the information resources that constitute the occurrences of a topic from within the topic map. To provide this capability, the standard includes the concept of the facet. Facets basically provide a mechanism for…
Topic associations vs normal cross references
It is also important to note that while both topic associations and normal cross references are hyperlinks, they are very different creatures: In a cross reference, the anchors (or end points) of the hyperlink occur within the information resources (although the link itself…
What Do Http Uris Identify? - Design Issues
Uris for web pages vs uris for real world objects
HTTP URIs, in the web architecture, have been used to denote documents -- "web pages" informally, or "information resources" more formally. However, with the growth of the Semantic Web, which uses URIs to denote anything at all, the urge to use and practice of using HTTP URIs…
Where Are The Semantics In The Semantic Web?
Layers of the semantic infrastructure
It will be layered, extensible, and composable. A major part of this will entail representing and reasoning with semantic metadata, and/or providing semantic markup in the information resources. Fundamental to the semantic infrastructure are ontologies, knowledge bases, and…