Hi Pete:
Yes... I suppose I'm barking up the wrong modeling tree. I am just
worried about the alignment of the definition of resource being
identical to concept in a VES. This is the sheep example. You never
have a sheep in a VES. You always have a description of sheep. If
the model accounts for this already, then I'm happy. It just doesn't
seem to read to me that way. It reads that you can have a set of
sheep that is a VES. So that I might line up 10 fuzzy creatures
(that are all addressable by URI) and call it a VES. This seems to
be a weak instantiation of a VES, but one that is consistent with the
DCAM. Is that the case? If not, where have I gone wrong in my
interpretation of what is given in the DCAM?
On 23-Feb-07, at 12:18 AM, Pete Johnston wrote:
> Hi Joe,
>
>> I guess what is confusing is the level of indirection introduced by
>> "described resource" and left out in VES.
>
> Could you say a bit more about what you mean here please?
>
> I don't see the distinction.
>
> A VES is a resource and may be described; a member of a VES is a
> resource and may be described.
>
> But in each case the descriptions and the resources are two
> different things.
>
> Taking an SKOS ConceptScheme as an example: the ConceptScheme as
> resource is the set of Concepts, not a human-readable or RDF/XML
> document "describing" them.
>
> And that is still the case even if I give the ConceptScheme an http
> URI and serve up a document when that URI is dereferenced using the
> HTTP protocol: the URI identifies the ConceptScheme, not the
> document (Yes, I need to be careful with the W3C httpRange-14 rules
> about redirects and so on.)
>
> Also, jumping back to your New Zealand example: if two agents have
> different notions of New Zealand the place, one including some
> islands and one excluding them, then those are two different
> resources.
>
> Pete
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