Re: (urgent) UML links just broke

For future reference (not the PR docs!):

I did a bit more delving and found web pages for UML 2.1.2 [1] and  
MOF 2.0 [2] that provide links to the specs in HTML, PDF and PS. One  
tricky part is that [1] provides links to both the infrastructure and  
superstructure parts of UML, and we cite only the infrastructure  
part. We could, of course, simply use the PDF link for the  
infrastructure part [3]; for the sake of symmetry we may then also  
want to use the PDF link for MOF [4]. I have edited the Wiki to use  
[3] and [4] -- hope that this is OK!

Ian

[1] http://www.omg.org/spec/UML/2.1.2/
[2] http://www.omg.org/spec/MOF/2.0/
[3] http://www.omg.org/spec/UML/2.1.2/Infrastructure/PDF/
[4] http://www.omg.org/spec/MOF/2.0/PDF/


On 22 Sep 2009, at 14:31, Sandro Hawke wrote:

>
> OMG put the old documents back, so I'm sticking with the earlier text.
> (I'm a little suspicious that your new MOF link is 2003, when we were
> using a 2006 one.   I kind of prefered Michael's links...)
>
> Let's talk to OMG and ask what URL they want us to use, going forward,
> and switch to that at some point during PR.
>
>    -- Sandro
>
>> Looking at the UML 2.1.2 document it claims that the standard =20
>> document URL is http://www.omg.org/spec/UML/2.1.2/Infrastructure/ 
>> PDF =20
>> -- I therefore changed the URL in /References/ref-uml to be this one.
>>
>> I also changed the MOF URL to http://www.omg.org/cgi-bin/doc?ptc/=20
>> 03-10-04.pdf as this seems to be the latest working one. For =20
>> consistency with the other references I also added this url as  
>> part =20
>> of the reference to give:
>>
>> [MOF]
>> Meta Object Facility (MOF) Core Specification, version 2.0. Object  
>> =20
>> Management Group, OMG Available Specification January 2006, http:// 
>> =20
>> www.omg.org/cgi-bin/doc?ptc/03-10-04.pdf.
>>
>> However, I am also perfectly happy if you prefer to remove the  
>> live =20
>> links on the grounds that they don't seem to be properly maintained.
>>
>> Ian
>>
>>
>> On 22 Sep 2009, at 07:48, Michael Schneider wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Sandro, all!
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: public-owl-wg-request@w3.org [mailto:public-owl-wg-=20
>>>> request@w3.org]
>>>> On Behalf Of Sandro Hawke
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 12:18 AM
>>>> To: public-owl-wg@w3.org
>>>> Subject: (urgent) UML links just broke
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The links from Overview and Syntax to UML and MOF are broken.  I  
>>>> =20
>>>> think
>>>> this just happened today; I guess OMG decided to get rid of the old
>>>> copies of their specs.  Now the PDFs are 404.  We can't publish  
>>>> this
>>>> way.
>>>>
>>>> In Syntax, Overview, and NFR, we use:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/References/ref-uml
>>>> [UML]
>>>>    OMG Unified Modeling Language (OMG UML), Infrastructure,
>>>>    V2.1.2. Object Management Group, OMG Available Specification,
>>>>    November 2007, http://www.omg.org/docs/formal/07-11-04.pdf.
>>>>
>>>> and, in Syntax:
>>>>
>>>> [MOF]
>>>>    Meta Object Facility (MOF) Core Specification, version 2.0.  
>>>> Object
>>>>    Management Group, OMG Available Specification January 2006.
>>>>
>>>>    with a link to: http://www.omg.org/docs/formal/06-01-01.pdf
>>>>
>>>> Those pdf links are now, suddenly, 404.
>>>>
>>>> Poking around a little, I think maybe the right links to use are:
>>>>   http://www.omg.org/spec/MOF/2.0/
>>>>   http://www.omg.org/spec/UML/2.2/
>>>>
>>>> But:
>>>>
>>>>    (1) That's UML 2.2 not 2.1.2.   I don't see 2.1.2 on their  
>>>> site =20=
>>
>>>> any
>>>> more.
>>>
>>> I simply replaced "2.2" by "2.1.2" in the above URL and received the
>>> corresponding website for UML 2.1.2. So we now have:
>>>
>>>     UML: <http://www.omg.org/spec/UML/2.1.2/>
>>>
>>>     MOF: <http://www.omg.org/spec/MOF/2.0/>
>>>
>>>>    	I have no idea if this matters.
>>>>
>>>>    (2) We were linking to a PDF before; maybe there was a reason  
>>>> for
>>>>        that?  I don't know.  Their site does have more recent URLs.
>>>
>>> On the web pages cited above, there are links to the PDFs (fixme:  
>>> =20
>>> are these
>>> the original ones?):
>>>
>>>     UML: formal/2007-11-04 | Infrastructure specification | PDF  =09
>>>          <http://www.omg.org/spec/UML/2.1.2/Infrastructure/PDF>
>>>
>>>     MOF: formal/2006-01-01 | MOF Core specification | PDF
>>>          <http://www.omg.org/spec/MOF/2.0/PDF>
>>>
>>>> I'm vaguely inclined to just take out the URLs.  If OMG can't  
>>>> keep =20=
>>
>>>> their
>>>> documents on the web for two years, why link to them.  :-) In  
>>>> fact, I
>>>> guess that's what I'll do, unless someone speaks up, arguing =20
>>>> confidently
>>>> for some particular URLs to use here.
>>>
>>> I agree that we should go with the URLs of the new web pages, and  
>>> =20
>>> not with
>>> the PDFs anymore, since the latter documents are easily available  
>>> =20
>>> from the
>>> web pages.
>>>
>>>>
>>>>       -- Sandro
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Michael
>>>
>>> --
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