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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