Re: [VM] Telecon on Tuesday, 27 September

Miles, AJ (Alistair) wrote:

>Hi Tom, all,
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>Ahead of telecon today, here's a short note re intentions for SKOS Core URI dereferencing.
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>Currently SKOS Core does the following...
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>All property & class URIs follow the pattern:
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>http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#localName
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>A GET against the URI http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core returns a message with 'Content-type: application/rdf+xml' (irrespective of what content type(s) the client asked for) and response code 200. 
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>To bring into line with FOAF & DCMI, I would like to propose a change to this dereferencing policy.  I propose the following:
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>1. A GET against http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core with 'Accept: application/rdf+xml' redirects (via response code 303) to the latest snapshot of the SKOS Core RDF description (currently http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core/history/2005-03-31).
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>(This ensures that provenance of RDF statements about SKOS Core classes & props is always a historical (date-stamped) snapshot, allowing run-time distinction between 'versions'.)
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>2. A GET against http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core with an accept field that is not 'application/rdf+xml' redirects (via response code 303) to the latest version of the SKOS Core Vocabulary Specification (http://www.w3.org/TR/swbp-skos-core-spec/)
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>(This ensures that a click on the URI of a SKOS Core prop or class in a browser will take you to the right bit of the spec.)
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>How's that look?
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...and gets against URIs of specific terms?

Dan