Re: Sustainable Codes vs Volatile URIs Re: URIs / Ontology for Physical Units and Quantities

Last point? Just as this was getting to be an interesting thread! By the
rules of the URI-brother/sisterhood, a discussion like this cannot have
less than a 100 messages :)

guha

On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Wes Turner <wes.turner@gmail.com> wrote:

> Last point, I swear:
>
> * owl:sameAs "this";
>
> On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 3:55 PM, Wes Turner <wes.turner@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 9:44 AM, Thad Guidry <thadguidry@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Bernand and friends!
>>>
>>> This old debate of : Strings versus Things (and how do we make them
>>> useful and reconcilable)
>>>
>>> It seems that everyone on this thread has agreement:
>>>
>>> 1. Codes are useful
>>> 2. URIs can be volatile, (shit happens), but we want to be able to use
>>> them, irregardless, if we want.
>>> 3. Some folks prefer their Codes adapted in a certain way, to make it
>>> easier to program and reconcile against.
>>> 4. Reconciling processes are sometimes harder for a programmer or
>>> developer, if there are less reliable sources floating around that have
>>> correctly mapped Codes to our Codes.
>>>
>>> What is clear is that SOME of the data, identifier, reconciling sources
>>> that are on the web now.... probably could do a better job of alignment.
>>>
>>
>> * RDFJS autocomplete fields (is this an ENUM?)
>> * RDFJS form validation
>> * (presentational) language mappings
>>
>> NAAICT, RDF is statements about resources with URIs linked by predicates.
>>
>> Is a literal or a URI better for linking between things (as "relational
>> keys")?
>>
>> * URIs are (can be) dereferenced (optionally also with a human-readable
>> HTML representation (#here))
>> * URIs are namespace-unique (they reduce "collisions" and ambiguity)
>>   * When/if the underlying codeset changes, the URI (prefix) changes too
>> * URIs are URL-encoded
>> * Labels are for display
>> * Labels are [HTML,]-encoded
>> * Labels have @en (@language attributes)
>>   * These attributes describe a resource with a URI
>> * Labels and URIs are/can be similarly collated
>>
>> http://www.w3.org/TR/ld-bp/#HTTP-URIS
>>
>> > [paraphrasing: "Please use URIs for keys w/ RDF Linked Data."]
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> The only issue that I see that needs to be fixed then... is # 4.  (and
>>> that can be fixed through better education and offering to help fix those
>>> sources, or don't use them, and use other sources)
>>>
>>>
>>> Thad
>>> +ThadGuidry <https://www.google.com/+ThadGuidry>
>>>
>>>
>>
>

Received on Thursday, 7 May 2015 23:27:36 UTC