AW: URI policy for thesaurus concepts

I agree also to using http:// uris and / as delimiter.
Yes, I used some wordnet terms and it seems they work

Perhaps Patrick Stickler will also like it to use http:// and / to
identify concepts, his URIQA should work with it.

cheers
Leo

> * Bernard Vatant <bernard.vatant@mondeca.com> [2004-04-30 17:36+0200]
> > 
> > To go along with Dan ...
> > 
> > I also prefer the / approach in principle because it defines more 
> > neatly the "subject indicator", but consider that e.g. OWL uses 
> > fragment identifiers to define classes and properties ...
> > 
> > Will not people be confused with OWL elements defined by 
> > http://example.org/myontology#class001
> > and SKOS concepts defined by http://example.org/myskos/concept001
> 
> Some RDF/RDFS/OWL vocabs end in a / and others end in a # and 
> others do other things. This is the current state of affairs. 
> The confusion is only a problem because these different 
> approaches have different technical and standards 
> characteristics (and those aren't well explained, currently).
> 
> > What about namespace management?
> 
> An important but relatively independent problem, I think.
> 
> > And having, e.g. for GEMET, over 8000 different 
> resources/concepts, if 
> > you just want to download the whole stuff, hmm... Is not it more 
> > simple to have a / namespace for a whole SKOS scheme, and # 
> for each 
> > concept in it?
> > 
> > We've been through this in Published Subjects TC, without clear 
> > conclusion ...
> 
> I've a few years experience using the 
> http://xmlns.com/wordnet/1.6/Cat etc approach, > and have to 
> say it is useful. The ability to return a useful chunk of 
> information from a larger dataset is something I am reluctant 
> to give up. Surely in the future we'll have richer (SKOS API, 
> RDF DAWG etc) interfaces to these datasets, but the current 
> approach can be implemented with a simple filetree or CGI 
> script, and has proved reasonably popular.
> 
> Dan
>

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