RE: [VM] Telecon on Tuesday, 27 September

Hi Tom, all,

Ahead of telecon today, here's a short note re intentions for SKOS Core URI dereferencing.

Currently SKOS Core does the following...

All property & class URIs follow the pattern:

http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#localName

A GET against the URI http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core returns a message with 'Content-type: application/rdf+xml' (irrespective of what content type(s) the client asked for) and response code 200. 

To bring into line with FOAF & DCMI, I would like to propose a change to this dereferencing policy.  I propose the following:

1. A GET against http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core with 'Accept: application/rdf+xml' redirects (via response code 303) to the latest snapshot of the SKOS Core RDF description (currently http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core/history/2005-03-31).

(This ensures that provenance of RDF statements about SKOS Core classes & props is always a historical (date-stamped) snapshot, allowing run-time distinction between 'versions'.)

2. A GET against http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core with an accept field that is not 'application/rdf+xml' redirects (via response code 303) to the latest version of the SKOS Core Vocabulary Specification (http://www.w3.org/TR/swbp-skos-core-spec/)

(This ensures that a click on the URI of a SKOS Core prop or class in a browser will take you to the right bit of the spec.)

How's that look?

Cheers,

Al.

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:public-swbp-wg-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Thomas Baker
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> Subject: [VM] Telecon on Tuesday, 27 September
> 
> 
> 
> Vocabulary Management telecon, Tue, Sep 27, 1300 UTC (1500 Berlin)
> 
> Zakim: +1.617.761.6200=20
> Conference code 8683# ('VMTF')
> irc://irc.w3.org:6665/vmtf
> http://www.w3.org/2005/07/05-swbp-irc
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> As I mentioned in a posting last week, Alistair, Dan, and
> I recently had a chance to meet at DC-2005 in Madrid (Sep
> 12-15) and to discuss with Eric Miller what goals we might
> realistically be able to attain in Vocabulary Management
> within the chartered lifetime of SWBP-WG (1st February 2006).
> 
> We agreed that the current draft [1], which has not advanced
> since before the August lull, provides a fine basis for a
> short, useful, and tightly focused note, but recognized that
> an additional push would be needed to push this to completion.
> 
> We also agreed that the latest TAG decision on httpRange-14
> [2], along with developments in DCMI, provide an important
> opportunity to agree on among SKOS, FOAF, and Dublin Core on a
> common approach to the simple and very basic question: What do
> you get when you click on the URI of a SKOS, FOAF, or DC term?
> 
> DCMI has a concrete problem to solve in this regard
> inasmuch clicking on the URIs of a Dublin Core
> term currently takes users to a screenful of angle
> brackets at the top of the RDF schema -- try clicking
> on http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/title.  This is not
> very user-friendly.
> 
> In Madrid, Dan, Alistair, Eric, and I informally discussed
> different approaches to improving on this situation -- e.g.,
> by using content negotiation to serve up Web pages or RDF
> schemas as alternatives, or by pointing from a target Web
> page to an RDF schema.
> 
> Solving this really basic problem with a common approach
> implemented by SKOS, FOAF, and Dublin Core would provide an
> excellent (and realistic) focus for a short note on the basis
> of the current draft and should be useful as an example for
> others to follow, but further discussion is needed to agree
> on a solution.
> 
> Dan, Alistair, Ralph, and anyone else out there with an
> interest in this -- could we use the telecon tomorrow to keep
> the momentum going on this?
> 
> Thanks,
> Tom
> 
> [1] http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/BestPractices/VM/principles/20050705
> [2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2005Jun/0039.html
> 
> 
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