Re: multiple IDs as linked data

I was rather puzzled by the original message, but I think I may beginning to get it. :-)

You seem to want IDs that don't resolve.
That seems a bit strange to me.
In my world, I turn every ID into a URI, and assert sameAs between them.
I use a simple URI, such as http://example.com/dataset/sourcexxx/id347 and then I can easily look things up from source IDs using resolution.
(I know this is hacking URIs, but it is pragmatic!)

Beyond that, I may want to have a record of the source of some of the data, including some string for the identifier at that source.
I guess this is what you are thinking about.

So I might also assert myonto:sourceXxxxID or whatever, which also gives me a non-URI-hacking way of getting to the URI, if I have a SPARQL endpoint.

If I want to be really clean, then I manage the whole thing separately, and put all of the equivalent IDs into one of my sameAs stores, which is then functioning as a dictionary for me, I guess.

Best
Hugh
> On 22 Dec 2016, at 17:10, Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 5:23 AM, Andrea Perego
> <andrea.perego@jrc.ec.europa.eu> wrote:
>> As a matter of fact, there's currently no best practice or reference
>> vocabulary for expressing identifiers in RDF.
> 
> Except for all that stuff about URLs :P
>

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