Re: [xdi] [light discussion] "Semantic Aware Identifiers"

[Markus Sabadello <markus.sabadello@xdi.org>]

I usually say "abstract, structured identifiers" when explaining XRI to people.

But I like "semantic aware identifiers" very much as well, like you say, especially for XDI!

I also like your timeline, Drummond may have ideas for more entries..

Markus

On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Giovanni Bartolomeo <giovanni.bartolomeo@uniroma2.it> wrote:

Dear Colleagues,

some days ago I was talking with some colleagues trying to explain what XDI is for and how XRI relates to XDI. I came to say that XRIs are a new class of identifiers, which, unlike URIs, are "semantic aware". The expression

  *semantic* *aware* *identifiers*

seemed to me to well describe XRIs, especially when used inside XDI documents. If you like, I think that we could use this expression to describe our work... and to label the whole wide area of investigations that could - hopefully - be created consequently.

What do you think?

Kind Regards,
Giovanni

PS: for those who want to read a bit more... some thoughts during these days led me to formulate this rough timeline: (do you have any other reference you think could be useful to report?)

June 1994 At CERN, Sir Berners-Lee defines the Universal Resource Identifiers [RFC1630]. URIs are opaque to clients: the Web is designed so that agents communicate resource information state through representations, not identifiers. HTTP clients cannot determine the type of a resource representation by inspecting a URI for that resource.

May 2007 J. Rosenberg defines an algorithm for constructing a URI that can be used to reference pieces of information that contained in XML documents distributed over the Web [RFC4825]. The perspective is now reversed: XCAP clients are aware of the meaning contained in the XCAP identifiers they use, but servers are (almost) not needed to understand them.

September 2010 At OASIS, *semantic* *aware* *identifiers* are introduced. They are built in a way so that they could be used to address concepts, individuals, roles and any possible way they could be legitimately combined within a description logic. Clients explicitly understand the semantics behind identifiers and perform reasoning on them. Two biggest problems of modern Internet - data mining and data interoperability - are natively solved by this approach... :-)


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