SV: [RDF] Version handling
Jonas Liljegren
jonas@liljegren.org
29 Sep 2000 09:12:16 +0200
Stefan Andersson <stefan@c64.org> writes:
> Actually, I've just begun to read the book 'The User Illusion : Cutting
> Consciousness Down to Size' by Tor N=F6rretranders. (In swedish: ' M=E4rk
> V=E4rlden') - I've only gotten like 70 pages into it, but it is reeaaally
> interesting with regards to WRAF and the kinds of issues we're battling
> here. One of the main points in the book is that 'forgetting'
> information (and, I suppose, selecting) is more costly than obtaining
> it... and he makes the 1-to-1 connection between information and
> entropy. And actually touches on formulas as a strategy of battling
> 'entropy'.
Would you like to explain why its so?
> I've just realized that some of my presumptions with regards to
> 'information' and caching and what-have-you might have been wrong. Or at
> least too shallow.
Which presumptions?
> (But one of the things I think is more correct, is every viewers right
> to a subjective POV and _level_ of information - or personal degree of
> information entropy, so to speak. It is the _viewer_ that is the
> anchoring point, not the _model_.)
What effect does this have on the implementation?
How will the agents POV influence, for example, the list of properties
returned for a requested resource?
How does this relate to the context thing we planning to include? (
Including session information, personal preferences and the
accumulated filters from previous requests).
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