- From: Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de>
- Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 14:52:30 +0100
- To: Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>
- Cc: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>, RDF Working Group WG <public-rdf-wg@w3.org>
On 25 May 2011, at 12:28, Ivan Herman wrote: > (alas!, it is not possible to define a new vocabulary URI for rdf and rdfs; it would be sooooo much better to use > > http://www.w3.org/ns/rdf > http://www.w3.org/ns/rdfs > > :-( Well, we can't do much, but there's something that we can do NOW. We can give the community license to experiment and find out whether the shorter namespaces are worth the pain induced by a change. When it's time for the next RDF in 2020, the verdict should be in. A SHORT NAMESPACE URI FOR RDF AND RDFS W3C Working Group Note To facilitate the migration to shorter namespace IRIs for RDF and RDFS, we reserve the namespace http://www.w3.org/ns/rdf# for use in a future version of RDF. The suggested prefix is rdf2:. RDF implementations may consider supporting all terms in the current rdf: and rdfs: namespaces not just under their customary IRIs, but also under a corresponding IRI in the rdf2: namespace. Note however that data published using this rdf2: namespaces is not valid RDF 1.1. This is not a commitment that any future version of RDF will use the rdf2: namespace, or define in it any of the terms in the current rdf: and rdfs: namespaces, or define them with the same semantics.
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