Re: Use of same name with different case considered harmful

On 8 January 2018 at 07:39, <Simon.Cox@csiro.au> wrote:

> The LOCN vocabulary includes a number of terms in which an RDF property
> has the same name as an RDF Class, differing only in case [1], e.g.
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> locn:geometry vs. locn:Geometry
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> locn:address vs locn:Address
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> While strictly OK, this is generally considered risky, since some
> processing environments fail to distinguish between tokens on the basis of
> case alone.
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> Modifying the vocabulary to avoid this might be a helpful revision, e.g.
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> locn:geometry à locn:hasGeometry
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> locn:address à locn:hasAddress
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Just a lurker here, but this post got my interest

We use this pattern sometimes (in other contexts)

I thought RDF was case sensitive, is there some tooling that you are aware
of, that is not?


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