Re: names, URIs and ontologies

Pierre-Antoine,

> The ideal URI for boston would be city:/USA/Massachusets/Boston
> It assumes that the "city:" scheme is commonly agreed on,
> but any kind of public name has to do that agreement assumption.

Why not just declare city as a namespaceprefix? You can have as many
as you want (commonly agreed on or not) and scoped just as you want.
We found a lot of motivation in http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Webize.html
   [[[
   Namespaces c and u are introduced for two reasons: for brevity,
   as repeating them in the code would have been too cumbersome;
   and for syntactic reasons as URIs tend to contain characters which
   would be ambiguous with other syntax is allowed in SQL column names.
   ]]]

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Jos De Roo