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

[Richard Pyle]

Thanks, Bob.  I was unaware of the difference until now.  

Such is the bane of our community (homonyms, synonyms, and misapplied
terms).

I sigh in an analagous way everytime someone refers to a taxon name, when
they are really referring to a taxon concept. 

Rich



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> [mailto:tdwg-content-bounces at lists.tdwg.org] On Behalf Of Bob Morris
> Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 2:51 AM
> To: tdwg-content at lists.tdwg.org
> Subject: [tdwg-content] "resolution" of URIs usually used improperly
> 
> 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
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