- From: Steve Speicher <sspeiche@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 11:21:09 -0500
- To: RDF Data Shapes Working Group <public-data-shapes-wg@w3.org>
On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Peter F. Patel-Schneider <pfpschneider@gmail.com> wrote: > On 12/11/2014 07:24 AM, Karen Coyle wrote: >> Checking the IRIs >> by Karen Coyle >> Europeana aggregates metadata about cultural heritage objects from >> hundreds of >> libraries, archives and museums. The incoming data needs to be thoroughly >> checked for accuracy. Among these checks are those on IRIs as values, >> which >> can vary depending on the property. Briefly, the checks are >> 1) the IRI must resolve, i.e. http status code = 2XX >> 2) the IRI value must return a media object of a given type (e.g. based on >> list of MIME types) >> 3) the IRI value must return an object which is of the rdf:type >> SKOS:Concept > > > I am uncomfortable including this kind of checking, although I do see that > it has uses. One issue here is that the results of the checks are all > ephemeral. > I see the uses of this too, though sees like it is outside the scope of this WG's current scope but leads itself more towards a "linked data" validation/quality checker. Has there been any requirements identified that we don't want to follow links found in any of the data? Perhaps it drives this sort of requirement. - Steve ..snip..
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