W3C Semantic Web Development

The Me Llamo link type

It's time we gave proper identifers to all the good ideas we've had over the years. Aaron Swartz inquired, on 17 Sep 2000 about the following little idea I jotted down in 1997:

the "me llamo" link

idea: a link type where a document says "I call myself X". In combination with a back-link service, it's a nifty URN idea.

--addressing
revision 1.12 1997/04/16 21:44:29

Here's an RDF schema for it, i.e. a home for it in the semantic web:

Properties

• me_llamo: Resource -> AbsoluteURIwf

  for me_llamo(thing, name) read: thing calls itself name; e.g. a W3C tech report bears its identifier on the title page. This is a subproperty of dublin core identifier (@@HyperRDF TODO). Note that the object of such a satement is a string, ala "I call myself 'Dan'." not the resource identified by the name, ala "I am Dan." cf Interpretation properties. In terms of Communication Protocol Semantics, you can conclude me_llamo(x, n) from hasAnswer(q, a), subject(a, x), entails(a, s), subject(s, x), object(s, n), predicate(s, me_llamo). That is: if a message shows that a resource calls itself N, then it calls itself N.