Re: Best Practice for Renaming OWL Vocabulary Elements

On 5/18/11 9:06 PM, Michael F Uschold wrote:
> Randomness is a red herring here, possibliy being confused with 
> meanginless URIs (e.g. numerical ones) that may appear random, but the 
> real issue is separating the id from the name, as Glenn says below.

It isn't about separating the ID from the Name. It is all about 
separating Names from Addresses.

What's the difference between an ID, Name, and an Address?


Kingsley
>
> Michael
>
> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 4:14 PM, glenn mcdonald <glenn@furia.com 
> <mailto:glenn@furia.com>> wrote:
>
>         But this does not meet Glenn's call for randomness I believe.
>
>
>     I didn't call for randomness, just for clean separation of the
>     machine identifiers from the human names.
>
>         Furthermore the OBI URIs are resolvable (thank you! very much
>         appropriated :-), something that Glenn currently does not
>         consider for his implementations but that's a separate
>         conversation.
>
>
>     We're not really talking about my system, which isn't implemented
>     in RDF, but even if we were, my "identifiers" are local/relative
>     IDs, so combined with a base URI they're totally "resolvable".
>
>     glenn
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Michael Uschold, PhD
>    Senior Ontology Consultant, Semantic Arts
>    LinkedIn: http://tr.im/limfu
>    Skype, Twitter: UscholdM
>


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