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Catching up on the HTTP-range-14 thread on the lod mailing list, in a robust response to cygri's robust brand of pragmatism, I couldn't help but notice timbl inadvertently (?) slipped into poetry here:

Formalisms aren't smart.

Sure, I can make a program to make sense of that.

But I'm not going to just to save you the effort of getting it right.

Disappointed by the intensity of your posting.

Systems have managed for a long time to distinguish between library car and book,

between message header and message,

between a book and its subject.

Now we have masses of information about many books

and about many other things we have great value in it

Let's not mess it up.

If you want an ambiguous source of information, use natural language.

The power of data is that is a whole lot less ambiguous.

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As for the discussion I was having with Pat Hayes, I'm more than happy to call it a day now Pat's acknowledged (despite my communication failures) :

The document is a valid *representation* of the car, yes of course.