My task from last week: Semantic free identifiers

Hi,

On last week's call I was tasked with contacting Chris and Alan 
regarding the form of the Relations Ontology URIs. There was some 
concern that the current text fragment (e.g. part_of) would be replaced 
with a semantic free identifier (e.g. RO_0000001). They confirmed this 
is the case. The discussion stemmed from concern that our Atlas Triples 
use predicates which are also in this form and there was a concern that 
it makes querying harder. Alan Ruttenberg had the following useful 
suggestion (I would also be keen to know if this resolves the concerns 
on the call or if I missed something more fundamental)

for sparql they can write:

prefix part_of:<http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0000000>

then query:

?a part_of: ?b

SPARQL processors should allow something like:

@include_prefixes<http://foo.org/ro_prefixes.txt>

Cheers,

James



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Received on Monday, 20 June 2011 08:47:37 UTC