- From: Thomas Baker <tom@tombaker.org>
- Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2019 10:08:53 +0200
- To: Rob Atkinson <rob@metalinkage.com.au>
- Cc: Karen Coyle <kcoyle@kcoyle.net>, Antoine Isaac <aisaac@few.vu.nl>, Dataset Exchange Working Group <public-dxwg-wg@w3.org>
On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 06:06:21AM +1000, Rob Atkinson wrote:
> The argument seems to be something I dont understand at
> all, and have never seen an example of AFAICT: "most specifications are
> mutable" .
The Initial Example in [1], as shown in Figure 2, shows Profile X as a
profile of "Dublin Core Terms" (*), identified in the example as [2].
The specification at [2] has evolved, and continues to evolve, over a
long timeframe. This is not unusual - think FOAF, Schema.org, even SKOS
and RDF. For RDF namespaces, best practice turned out to be _not_ to
include versioning information in URIs. DCMI stopped doing it after
http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/ (the next one to be coined was
http://purl.org/dc/terms/). FOAF still uses http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/,
but changing the URI at this point would be quite disruptive with no
obvious gains (other than aesthetic).
Tom
[1] https://w3c.github.io/dxwg/profilesont/#initial-example
[2] http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/
(*) I have commented that the more correct name is "DCMI Metadata
Terms" but that is irrelevant to my point here.
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Tom Baker <tom@tombaker.org>
Received on Wednesday, 19 June 2019 08:10:15 UTC