Tennis, Joseph T.2017-01-192017-01-192004Joseph T. Tennis. (2004). "URIs and Intertextuality: Incumbent Philosophical Commitments in the Development of the Semantic Web." In Knowledge Organization and the Global Information Society: Proceedings of the Eighth International ISKO Conference. (London, United Kingdom, July 13-16, 2004). Advances in Knowledge Organization vol. 9. Würzburg: Ergon: 103-108.http://hdl.handle.net/1773/37936Examines two commitments inherent in Resource Description Framework (RDF): intertextuality and rationalism. After introducing how rationalism has been studied in knowledge organization, this paper then introduces the concept of bracketed-rationalism. This paper closes with a discussion of ramifications of intertextuality and bracketed rationalism on evaluation of RDF.pdfURIs and Intertextuality: Incumbent Philosophical Commitments in the Development of the Semantic WebArticle