- From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 10:53:53 -0400
- To: public-lod@w3.org
- Message-ID: <4F902701.6030201@openlinksw.com>
On 4/19/12 10:23 AM, Antoine Isaac wrote: > Dear all, > > We have a question on an what to do when a linked data set is "moved" > from one namespace to the other. We searched for recipes to apply, but > did not really find anything 'official' around... > > The VU university of Amsterdam has published a Linked Data SKOS > representation of RAMEAU [1] as a prototype, several years ago. For > example we have > http://stitch.cs.vu.nl/vocabularies/rameau/ark:/12148/cb14521343b > > Recently, BnF implemented its own production service for RAMEAU. The > previous concept is at: > http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb14521343b > (see RDF at http://data.bnf.fr/14521343/web_semantique/rdf.xml) > > The production services makes the prototype obsolete. Our issue is how > to properly "transition" from one to the other. Several services are > using the URIs of the prototype. For example at the Library of Congress: > http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002000569 > > We can ask for the people we know to change their links. But > identifying the users of URIs seems too manual, error-prone a process. > And of course in general we do not want links to be broken. > > Currently we have done the following: > > - a 301 "moved permanently" redirection from the > stitch.cs.vu.nl/rameau prototype to data.bnf.fr. > > - an owl:sameAs statement between the prototype URIs and the > production ones, so that a client searching for data on the old URI > gets data that enables it to make the connection with the original > resource (URI) it was seeking data about. > > Does that seem ok? What should we do, otherwise? Seems OK to me :-) Kingsley > > Thanks for any feedback you could have, > > Antoine Isaac (VU Amsterdam side) > Romain Wenz (BnF side) > > [1] RAMEAU is a vocabulary (thesaurus) used by the National Library of > France (BnF) for describing books. > > -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen Founder& CEO OpenLink Software Company Web: http://www.openlinksw.com Personal Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen Twitter/Identi.ca handle: @kidehen Google+ Profile: https://plus.google.com/112399767740508618350/about LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/kidehen
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