Re: HTTPS for RDF URIs?

On 31 Jan 2014, at 11:29, ☮ elf Pavlik ☮ <perpetual-tripper@wwelves.org> wrote:

> On 01/30/2014 09:10 PM, Kingsley Idehen wrote:
>> On 1/30/14 1:09 PM, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>    If not bad, is there any provision for allowing that an HTTPS URI
>>>    that only differs in the scheme part from HTTPS URI be identified
>>>    as the same resource?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> http and https are fundamentally different resources, but you can link
>>> them together with owl : sameAs, I think ...
>> 
>> Yes.
>> 
>> You simply use an <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#sameAs> relation to
>> indicate that a common entity is denoted [1] by the http: and https:
>> scheme URIs in question.
> does it make sense then to use https: IRIs if we state that one can treat http: version as equivalent?
Yes.
Because you get a different description of the NIR back from the other URI.

I’m tempted to say that the s after the http is no different to adding an s to the end - they are both valid URIs, and so simply opaque identifiers.
But someone will probably tell me that is too sloppy :-)

On the other hand, if I was to be pedantic, adding the s to the end of the http does take you out of Linked Data (although it is Semantic Web) according to the Principles.
But I have never let a little thing like that bother me.

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