Re: Biological Taxonomy Vocabulary 0.1

Sandro Hawke wrote:
> [to a much-smaller list]
> 
>>> Suffice to say, the new namespace URI is:
>>>
>>>    http://purl.org/NET/biol/ns#
>>>
>>> I can't imagine many people have had time to implement it yet, given that
>>> I only posted about it about 16 hours ago, but for what it's worth, I'll
>>> keep the old documents at the old URI for the next week or so, to allow
>>> any early adopters to catch up.
>> Consider using /additional/ versioned URIs, e.g.
>>
>>   <http://purl.org/NET/biol/20080510/ns#>
>>   <http://purl.org/NET/biol/20080921/ns#>
>>
>> from which people can access the previous versions of your ontology. The
>> version-free URI, which you have chosen now, will always refer to the
>> latest 
>> of these versioned ontologies.
>>  
>> The URI of the ontology, which is used within the ontology header, will
>> always be the version-free one. But you may, as a hint to people, add an
>> 'owl:versionInfo' annotation property to the ontology header, which
>> points 
>> to the respective versioned URI:  
>>
>>   <owl:Ontology rdf:about="http://purl.org/NET/biol/ns">
>>     <owl:versionInfo rdf:resource="http://purl.org/NET/biol/20080510/ns" />
>>   </owl:Ontology> 
> 
> I think this is probably a good approach, but I'd refine it a little bit
> and say that the "main" namespace should not so much dereference to the
> "latest" ontology, as the "latest release".  There can (and probably
> should) be alpha- and beta-test versions which are "later" but not (yet)
> suitable replacements.
> 
> Make sense?    (I've never done this with ontologies -- there could be a
> problem with it -- but i think it's right.)

Makes sense to me (although 'latest ontology' to me doesn't necessarily 
include any experimental versions). Maybe we can borrow terminology from 
Subversion etc and have a 'trunk' URL for works-in-progress?

Dan

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