RE: Question on "moving" linked data sets

This sounds like the best way to manage this transition.  I believe the 301 redirection is precisely what Ed (CC'ed on the mail) did when directing traffic from the lcsh.info URIs to the new (at the time) id.loc URIs.   (Speaking, of which, this email answers a question we asked ourselves here at LC about the relationship between Rameau at VU and Rameau at data.bnf, after Romain announced the addition of RAMEAU at data.bnf.  I'll try to move a little faster updating the URIs in ID.)

> - 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.
-- The answer seems obvious, but....This would be expressed in the data available from data.bnf, correct?

Yours,

Kevin

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Kevin Ford
Network Development and MARC Standards Office
Library of Congress
Washington, DC



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Antoine Isaac [mailto:aisaac@few.vu.nl]
> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2012 10:23 AM
> To: public-lod@w3.org
> Cc: romain.wenz; Antoine Isaac
> Subject: Question on "moving" linked data sets
> 
> 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?
> 
> 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.

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