[tdwg-content] "resolution" of URIs usually used improperly

[Peter DeVries]

>From now on I think we should adopt the correct usage as Bob suggests.

Use "dereferenced" when that is what we mean.

As a list, we are already pedantic about taxonomic terms and Codes.

- Pete

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 7:51 AM, Bob Morris <morris.bob at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is it too pedantic to wish that people would not use "resolve" when
> they mean "dereference"? The terms are distinguished in RFC 3986[1]:
>   "URI "resolution" is the process of
>   determining an access mechanism and the appropriate parameters
>   necessary to dereference a URI; this resolution may require several
>   iterations.  To use that access mechanism to perform an action on the
>   URI's resource is to "dereference" the URI." [1]
>
> I bet the concensus answer to my question is "Yes".  Sigh.
>
> [1]http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt
>
> Bob (The Pedant) Morris
>
> --
> Robert A. Morris
> Emeritus Professor  of Computer Science
> UMASS-Boston
> 100 Morrissey Blvd
> Boston, MA 02125-3390
> Associate, Harvard University Herbaria
> email: morris.bob at gmail.com
> web: http://bdei.cs.umb.edu/
> web: http://etaxonomy.org/mw/FilteredPush
> http://www.cs.umb.edu/~ram
> phone (+1) 857 222 7992 (mobile)
> _______________________________________________
> tdwg-content mailing list
> tdwg-content at lists.tdwg.org
> http://lists.tdwg.org/mailman/listinfo/tdwg-content
>



-- 
----------------------------------------------------------------
Pete DeVries
Department of Entomology
University of Wisconsin - Madison
445 Russell Laboratories
1630 Linden Drive
Madison, WI 53706
TaxonConcept Knowledge Base <http://www.taxonconcept.org/> / GeoSpecies
Knowledge Base <http://lod.geospecies.org/>
About the GeoSpecies Knowledge Base <http://about.geospecies.org/>
------------------------------------------------------------
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.tdwg.org/pipermail/tdwg-content/attachments/20101014/31ad9393/attachment.html