Re: Question on "moving" linked data sets

Hi All,

I do not think that there is much else you could do.  I presume the server
doing the 301 is going to stay around for a while.

~Richard.

On 19 April 2012 15:23, Antoine Isaac <aisaac@few.vu.nl> 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<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<http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb14521343b>
> (see RDF at http://data.bnf.fr/14521343/**web_semantique/rdf.xml<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<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/rameauprototype 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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