[mdx] syntax for entity-attributes

[Ian Young]

On 5 Sep 2011, at 19:08, Tom Scavo wrote:

> but attribute values should be expressed as URIs so as not to clash
> with each other:

This is surely not a statement that anyone would regard as true for all attributes.  For one thing, using URI values is only one way to avoid clashes.  For another, avoiding clashes is not always desirable.

> http://names.incommon.org/attribute/entity/user-defined=http://vo.example.org/group/archeology

Definitely not.  In a folksonomy, the clashes are the whole point.  They are where the definition of the tag arise from.

Reference?  Anything written by Clay Shirky around 2005.

	-- Ian



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