[uf-discuss] FYI: two posting about the Semantic Web, the "SynWeb", scraping and microformats

[David Janes -- BlogMatrix]

Ian Hickson wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, David Janes -- BlogMatrix wrote:
> 
>>Yes, users use other things than URIs to make the Internet work, and in 
>>fact their day-to-day "mental" interaction with URIs is quite small 
>>(such as when they see an ad for "dell.com", for example).
> 
> 
> Arguably (and certainly technically) even that isn't a URI.
> 

Not even pedantically does what you just typed make sense: because 
"dell.com" does not have a scheme, it certainly matches the BNF for a 
relative URI under RFC2396. However more importantly, most people 
understand that when humans communicate, "chair" is shorthand for
"the person chairing a committee", "the white house" is shorthand for 
something like "official US government policy by the current sitting 
president" and "dell.com" is a reasonable shorthand for the URI 
"http://www.dell.com"