- From: John Erickson <olyerickson@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:20:59 -0500
- To: Phil Archer <phila@w3.org>
- Cc: Sarven Capadisli <sarven.capadisli@deri.org>, Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de>, Government Linked Data Working Group WG <public-gld-wg@w3.org>
+1 to PhilA's suggestion, "use a stable URI scheme for file formats if available, falling back to the MIME type if not available" On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Phil Archer <phila@w3.org> wrote: > I'm getting some push-back from gov data publishers on using DBpedia sadly > (it's third party, it's not real, it's not stable, not like all our > wonderful government department Web sites that sometimes stay on line for > whole months!). The PROMOM effort that Dave has highlighted looks like the > kind of thing they'd like more - government agency to government agency - as > long as there's no ".uk" anywhere in the URIs I guess. > > How about "use a stable URI scheme for file formats if available, falling > back to the MIME type if not available" ? > > Phil. > > > > > On 10/02/2012 15:06, John Erickson wrote: >>>> >>>> The Right Thing to do would be to get IETF to mint URIs for all media >>>> types, and get ESRI to register a media type for their file format, etc. >>>> This may not be feasible. >> >> >> ...or maybe we could just follow the same, de facto convention we've >> been following of using URIs from A Certain Third party: >> >> http://dbpedia.org/resource/TIFF >> http://dbpedia.org/resource/JPEG >> http://dbpedia.org/resource/GZIP >> >> ...etc. ;) >> > > -- > > > Phil Archer > W3C eGovernment > http://www.w3.org/egov/ > > http://philarcher.org > +44 (0)7887 767755 > @philarcher1 -- John S. Erickson, Ph.D. Director, Web Science Operations Tetherless World Constellation (RPI) <http://tw.rpi.edu> <olyerickson@gmail.com> Twitter & Skype: olyerickson
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