Re: interoperability (was Re: isolating shapes in named graphs)

Dean/Eric,

Doesn't this boil down to the question of who you need to interact with? 
If it's the rest of the world then you better not change the NAICS codes, 
otherwise your app may not work correctly. If it's your own private world, 
you can do whatever you want - who could possibly stop you?
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Arthur Ryman


> > One of the nice things about RDF is that it is easy to extend one 
> of these things without modifying it, which standards like SKOS 
> encourage.  This mediates the problem in many settings.  But what if
> we actually want to change something?  Should we be allowed?  
> Technically, it is possible, after all, we now have that file behind
> our firewall. 
> >
> > My felling is that we should not - what does it mean to call 
> something a NAICS code, if you change some of them?   That holds 
> even more so for things like SKOS and PROV.

Received on Thursday, 11 December 2014 18:49:09 UTC