- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2012 12:40:32 -0500
- To: Steve Harris <steve.harris@garlik.com>
- Cc: Denny Vrandečić <denny.vrandecic@wikimedia.de>, Semantic Web mailing list <semantic-web@w3.org>, "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfpschneider@gmail.com>
On Aug 6, 2012, at 7:59 AM, Steve Harris wrote: > On 2012-08-06, at 13:35, Denny Vrandečić wrote: > >> Steve, >> >> thank you for the comments. I appreciate that you took the time for the review. >> >> 2012/8/6 Steve Harris <steve.harris@garlik.com>: >>>> PS: I believe that the xsd:date format is YYYY-MM-DD, not DD-MM-YYY. >>> >>> Yes, it's YYYY-MM-DD. >> >> I corrected it. >> >>> Also xsd:integer might be a better choice than xsd:int, to make comparisons with other data easier. xsd:integer is a supported type in SPARQL, xsd:int is not. If you're publishing data in Turtle, then you can just write bareword integers, e.g. 3499879 and they will be xsd:integers. >> >> I changed this to xsd:integer. > > Thanks. > >>> I find the use of predicates with a capital after the namespace a bit jarring (e.g. q:Method), but it's perfectly legal of course. >> >> It could become even more jarring, as we actually will probably not >> use q:Method in the export but rather a numeric ID like q:P17234. >> On the other hand, we plan to have q-en:Method owl:equivalentProperty >> q:P17234 and q-de:Methode owl:equivalentProperty q:P17234 etc. as >> convenience URIs. >> But that is a completely different discussion, where the draft is not >> finished yet: <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Notes/Multilingual_data> >> -- I would prefer *not* to have this discussion yet. I will ping this >> list as soon as the first draft for that is finished. > > Ouch. I know you said you didn't want to have this discussion (sorry!), but please bear in mind people building SPARQL queries using a UI - they will have serious predicate URI bloat, and no easy way to pick the "right" URI. > > I think this would run contra to good URI practice - deliberately creating lots of very similar URIs for the same thing is not ideal. URIs are supposed to be opaque anyway. > > I think something like q:method rdfs:label "Method"@en, "Methode"@fr, "Methode"@de, "方法"@zh, … is more common, and more user friendly - even if you have to use q:p17234 instead of q:method. +100. Pat Hayes > > - Steve > > -- > Steve Harris, CTO > Garlik, a part of Experian > +44 7854 417 874 http://www.garlik.com/ > Registered in England and Wales 653331 VAT # 887 1335 93 > Registered office: Landmark House, Experian Way, Nottingham, Notts, NG80 1ZZ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32502 (850)291 0667 mobile phayesAT-SIGNihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes
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