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


Thanks for your positive feedback!

Not so important from an engineering point of view, but having a  
"label" to identify the research/standardization field we are  
pioneering seems to make happier some academic colleagues..

So I'll take the freedom to use this expression :-)

Giovanni

Def. Quota "Drummond Reed" <drummond.reed@xdi.org>:

> Giovanni,
>
> I like it. I have been calling them "semantic identifiers" in some
> circumstances, but I like "semantically-aware identifiers" too. I do agree
> that it is a significant step forward in terms of a machine-understandable
> web.
>
> Although I have to fly to Washington D.C. tomorrow for Gov 2.0 and Internet
> Identity Workshop East, I am working to document the progress we have made
> on the XDI JSON serialization format, the XDI graph notation, and other key
> insights from the Whistler summit. Look for a post by tomorrow night.
>
> Best,
>
> =Drummond
>
> On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Markus Sabadello
> <markus.sabadello@xdi.org>wrote:
>
>> 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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>>
>>
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