The artifactualization of reference and "substances" on the Web.

Alexandre Monnin (1)

1 WIMMICS - Web-Instrumented Man-Machine Interactions, Communities and Semantics

In this paper we show that URIs, sometimes dubbed "philosophical proper names, in fact do not always refer as proper names does. We provide an account explaining why, centered around the notion of "resource", central to webarch, and that we qualify ontologically.

Keywords: Web; philosophy of the Web; artifactualization; reference; identification; resource; access; substance; names; proper names; ontology

Domains: Philosophy; Web; Humanities and Social Sciences; Computer Science [cs]

Alexandre Monnin. The artifactualization of reference and "substances" on the Web.: Why (HTTP) URIs do not (always) refer nor resources hold by themselves (post-print). APA Newsletters, 2012, 11 (2). ⟨hal-00672301v2⟩