- From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 15:56:25 -0800
- To: Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org>
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org
Karl Dubost wrote:
> Now, there's something which is a bit tricky. What's a Web site and how
> to define it?
I don't think it's tricky at all. A "site" is defined as a resource,
identified by a URI, which is a collection of other resources. Various
mechanisms can be made available for resources to assert that they are
part of a site, and as you point out, it would be useful for the "site"
resource representation to (optionally) contain a list of the URIs that
are in the site.
>
> Let's identify some of the possibilities:
> 1. Domain name = Web site
No.
> 2. Host = Collection of Web sites.
No.
> 3. Distributed Web site.
> Imagine now that the notion of Web sites is a collection of resource
> on a topic that people has agreed to put together.
Exactly.
> Abuse. Exactly like the keywords system in meta.
> People will start to declare that they belong to a Web site to be
> automatically indexed in the system which put the resources together.
Good point. So crawlers would probably require that the site resource
point back to the member resources...
>
> So if you have an URI which says we are all part of this Web site,
> Web site in this case meaning the 3rd option. What will be at the end of
> this URI ? A mechanism which says: "Hey yes, all this list of URIs
> belong to the same site." ?
... as you suggest.
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Cheers, Tim Bray
(ongoing fragmented essay: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/)
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