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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... :-) >>> >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------- >>> Invito da parte dell'Ateneo: >>> Il tuo futuro e quello della Ricerca Scientifica hanno bisogno del >>> tuo aiuto. Dona il 5 x mille all'Universita' di Roma Tor Vergata >>> codice fiscale: 80213750583 http://5x1000.uniroma2.it >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from this mail list, you must leave the OASIS TC that >>> generates this mail. Follow this link to all your TCs in OASIS at: >>> https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/portal/my_workgroups.php >>> >> >> >> >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------- Invito da parte dell'Ateneo: Il tuo futuro e quello della Ricerca Scientifica hanno bisogno del tuo aiuto. Dona il 5 x mille all'Universita' di Roma Tor Vergata codice fiscale: 80213750583 http://5x1000.uniroma2.it
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