Question on a metadate choice rationale

At the moment, a column has three different designators in the metadata: "@id", "name", "title". What is the rationale to have all three of them? I can see the reason for differentiating title and the rest, because the former may be longer, may have different languages, etc. But I looks to me as if 'name' and '@id' play very similar role. (I realize that '@id' means unicity, but is it reasonable to expect that from 'name', too?)

In the mapping case this becomes a bit convoluted. At the moment it uses the 'name' to generate the different values, but that is a bit of an arbitrary choice, it could use '@id' as well. Mainly with the possible introduction of the URI templates (see separate thread with Jeremy), 'name' may become unnecessary IMHO.

Ivan



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