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Re: Using urn:publicid: for namespaces

From: Aaron Swartz <aswartz@upclink.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 08:08:48 -0500
Message-Id: <200108140226.f7E2QIi21426@theinfo.org>
To: Stephen Cranefield <SCranefield@infoscience.otago.ac.nz>
Cc: www-rdf-interest@w3.org 
On Sunday, August 12, 2001, at 06:32  PM, Stephen Cranefield wrote:

> The property
> rdfs:isDefinedBy provides one mechanism, although it's not clear to me
> from its definition if this can be used to associate a namespace URI
> with a URL, or whether it must be used repeatedly to map each
> individual concept name to the resource that defines it (can anyone
> comment on this?).

RDF Core has an open issue on this subject (which I raised) and 
I hope to get them to define two subproperties to clarify this 
usage.

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