- From: John Erickson <olyerickson@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2018 06:26:35 -0500
- To: totl@soton.ac.uk
- Cc: lauretas@mail.com, Linked Data community <public-lod@w3.org>
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This seems like a perfect use case for nanopublications < http://nanopub.org/wordpress/?page_id=65> As Christopher suggests, a start might be to assign potentially useful URIs based on UUIDs. But then the trick is to associate contextual metadata that "explain" the node (for machines and/or humans). John On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 6:16 AM Christopher Gutteridge <totl@soton.ac.uk> wrote: > This is dangerous as 2 datasets are very likely to use the same URI to > mean something different. > > RDF already has the concept of blank nodes, eg _:foo, _:bar which only > exist within the current dataset and are explicitly not used for > linking. These cause a lot of headaches and I try to avoid them in all > my systems. > > You could do worse than generate UUID (numbers big enough to > statistically never ever clash if you pick them randomly), and just use > <urn:uuid:7673868d-231e-490d-9c4f-19288e7e668f> as URIs. This is ugly > but only us nerds should ever see them. > > > On 19/11/2018 10:55, Laura Morales wrote: > > Full original thread here: > https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.w3.org%2FArchives%2FPublic%2Furi%2F2018Nov%2F0000.html&data=01%7C01%7Ctotl%40soton.ac.uk%7C49e1846f6579438de24d08d64e0e11db%7C4a5378f929f44d3ebe89669d03ada9d8%7C1&sdata=c%2FbGGSAnTM5dv%2BF0E9UnookUETKwFMusjxDFuF0V4%2FQ%3D&reserved=0 > > > > Since I was asked to redirect my request to the "RDF community" I'm > posting here for comments, because I don't know if there is any official > place to ask to. > > > > -- > Christopher Gutteridge <totl@soton.ac.uk> > You should read our team blog at http://blog.soton.ac.uk/webteam/ > > -- John S. Erickson, Ph.D. Director of Operations, The Rensselaer IDEA Deputy Director, Web Science Research Center (RPI) <http://idea.rpi.edu/> <olyerickson@gmail.com> Twitter & Skype: olyerickson
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