Re: A note on CURIE-s in tutorials, primers, examples...

HI Ben/Shane,

> There's at least one notable use case: pointing to a "named" bnode.
>
>  <div about="[_:a]">
>     ...
>  </div>
>
>
>  ...
>
>  <a rel="foo:bar" resource="[_:a]">...</a>

Yes, I think that's the only example where you absolutely *must* have
this feature.

But I think when you start referring to resources that are properties
and classes (as in OWL and RDFS) or that are terms (as in SKOS) it
becomes much more natural to represent the resources using CURIEs
where the base (prefix) is fixed.

For example, RDFa allows you to very easily create a human and machine
readable classification vocabulary, using SKOS (this example is based
on one of the SKOS primer examples):

  <ul>
    <li
     about="[ex:milk]"
      instanceof="skos:concept"
      property="skos:prefLabel" content="milk"
    >
      milk
      <em>milk by source animal</em>
      <ul rev="skos:broader">
        <li
          about="[ex:cowMilk]"
           instanceof="skos:concept"
           property="skos:prefLabel">cow milk</li>
        <li
          about="[ex:goatMilk]"
            instanceof="skos:concept"
            property="skos:prefLabel">goat milk</li>
        <li
          about="[ex:buffaloMilk]"
            instanceof="skos:concept"
            property="skos:prefLabel">buffalo milk</li>
      </ul>
    </li>
  </ul>

More examples to follow in a blog post I'm writing.

Regards,

Mark

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Received on Thursday, 28 February 2008 10:37:30 UTC