[Sigia-l] Still Defining the Damn Thing

Travis Wilson trav at ciaheadquarters.com
Tue Feb 4 19:33:29 EST 2003


>I realize the term "things" could use some work - i'd loosely define it
>as "content or functionality that helps a user complete their task".

The W3C folk usually call those things "resources" -- as in Uniform 
Resource Locator, Resource Descriptor Format, etc. When I wanna say "thing" 
and I reach out into the ether for a better term, "resource" is the one 
that escapes my mouth first.

t




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