Re: In defence of 404 ...

Le lundi 07 août 2006 à 18:08 +0200, Bernard Vatant a écrit :
> Eric
> > I don't know if that's what Bernard would call elegant :), but what
> > about defining T1 in both DOC1 and DOC2 with a xml:base equal to DOC
> > (which means that in both DOC1 and DOC2, the identifier for #T1 is
> > neither DOC1#T1 nor DOC2#T1 but DOC#T1) and using a placeholder at the
> > address DOC#T1 with links (using rdfs:seeAlso or whatever) toward DOC1
> > and DOC2?
> > (Note that the mechanism can be adapted to slash URIs.)
> >   
> You mean e.g at http://rdf.insee.fr/geo/DEP_05
> you would get a placeholder containing no formal description beyond 
> things like
> rdfs:seeAlso http://rdf.insee.fr/geo/regions-2003.rdf#DEP_05
> rdfs:seeAlso http://rdf.insee.fr/geo/departements-2003.rdf#DEP_05

Yes, with maybe a very minimal set of relatively stable properties that
could be limited to the type and name of the entity.

> > That keeps DOC1 and DOC2 "equally normative". Applications which want to
> > use them directly can do it and applications which don't have a clue
> > where they can find information about DOC#T1 can dereference this URI to
> > get a first idea where that can look. 
> >
> > I see that as the equivalent of RDDL for namespace URIs: you use the URI
> > to publish a hint for applications that have no idea what the namespace
> > is about.
> >
> > Would that be acceptable for both of you?
> >   
> I buy it.

Great.

> > The last solution if this doesn't work for you could be to use either
> > non HTTP URIs or even anonymous RDF nodes and a
> > owl:InverseFunctionalProperty. Seems to be an overkill to me since in
> > this case we have a central authority which can define URIs but the
> > INSEE code is a perfect candidate for being an
> > owl:InverseFunctionalProperty...
> >   
> Hmm. Not sure I would like that solution.

:)

Eric

> Bernard
> 
> 
> 
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