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> Mike Champion wrote:
> >
> >...
> >
> > Perhaps RDF can be used as a pattern-matching tool rather than
> > a logical inferencing system, and maybe "pattern matching" can be logical
> > as well as heuristic. Still, an astronomical number of electrons
> > have changed state in search of a definition of URIs that can
> > support the needs of RDF, and that suggests to me that the notion
> > of "identity" is profoundly important in the RDF paradigm.
>
> RDF exists to solve a problem: associating metadata with web objects.
> You can't do that without a strong notion of identity.
So you mean the identity that comes with a string match of URIs? i.e. string
identity? Well, certainly, then, yes, but isn't this the same things as with
any XML technology? After all, a GI is just the same sort of beast, no?
Is this what Simon has been meaning by "identifiers"?
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