Re: A better solution for legacy IDs?

but I wonder if the answer wouldn't have been different if you had  
said that you would have many thousands of different identifiers.

kc

Quoting Adrian Pohl <pohl@hbz-nrw.de>:

> Hello William,
>
> when I asked the question of whether to use a predicate approach or  
> a datatype approach at semantic overflow (now  
> answers.semanticweb.com) no arguments were delivered for the  
> datatype approach but for the predicate approach and other  
> approaches discussed here. See [1].
>
> All the best
> Adrian
>
> [1] http://answers.semanticweb.com/questions/3572/xsd-or-vocabulary
>
>>>> On 13.12.2011 at 16:01, in message
> <20111213.150108.304380347.wwaites@tardis.ed.ac.uk>, William Waites
> <wwaites@tardis.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
>> On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:02:21 +0100, "Adrian Pohl" <pohl@hbz-nrw.de> said:
>>
>>     adrian> <info:0915145537>
>>
>> I kind of want to say that this shouldn't be shoehorned into a
>> non-resolvable URI but instead should be a datatype. It's a special
>> string. So,
>>
>> "0915145537"^^xyz:isbn
>>
>> then you can just use dc:identifier...
>>
>> Maybe not so obvious with bibliographic identifiers, but with some
>> other kinds of literals (e.g. weights and measures - thanks mmmmmrob)
>> it starts seeming quite strange to put what is really a datatype into
>> the meaning of the predicate...
>>
>> Cheers,
>> -w
>> --
>> 	       William Waites <wwaites@tardis.ed.ac.uk>
>>  Visiting Researcher, Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science
>> 	    School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
>
>
>
>



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