Terminology is a pain to construct, and an even bigger pain to
diffuse effectively, when dealing with large collections of
superficially heterogeneous, and factually homogeneous, interlinked
individuals.
In my "Linked
Data & Web Information BUS" post (plus a few LOD mailing
list posts), I had the delight and displeasure (on the brain
primarily) of attempting to get terminology right with regards to
Information- and Non-Information Web Resources. I eventually
settled for Data Sources instead of the simpler and more obvious
term: Data Resources :-)
Thus, I redefine the URIs from earlier past as follows:
http://demo.openlinksw.com/Northwind/Customer/ALFKI
(Information Resource)
http://demo.openlinksw.com/Northwind/Customer/ALFKI#this (Data
Resource)
Thanks to today's internet connectivity, it took a simple Skype
ping from Mike Bergman, and
a 30 minute (or so) session that followed for us to arrive at "Data
Resource" as a clearer term for Non Information Resources.
Mike has promised to write a detailed post covering our Linked
Data and the Structured Web terminology meshing odyssey.