Re: Data format version

Very old thread, but I still have a need for versioning data. It seems that
representationTechnique vocab is now deprecated

So I think the modern version is schema : schemaVersion now, which I think
I'll go with.

po 14. 1. 2013 v 21:38 odesílatel Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
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> On 3 January 2013 13:16, Phil Archer <phila@w3.org> wrote:
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>> This issue comes up more than one would hope. Ivan Herman's work on
>> http://www.w3.org/ns/formats/ is one answer (as Tim has pointed out) and
>> dcterms:format doesn't quite cover it. When working on ADMS we had to come
>> up with a new Class and property pair. See http://www.w3.org/ns/adms#
>> adms:representationTechnique
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>> (ADMS is under development in the W3C Gov Linked Data WG but is already
>> being used by various public sector bodies).
>>
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> Thanks Phil, Tim ... I'm going to go with
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> http://www.w3.org/ns/adms#representationTechnique
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> Bearing in mind it's more or a hint that a bot can stiff when it gets
> confused, rather than, a hard and fast rule ...
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>>
>> HTH
>>
>> Phil.
>>
>>
>> On 03/01/2013 11:55, Tim Haynes wrote:
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>>> On 01/02/2013 10:59 PM, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
>>>
>>>> Was wondering if anyone knew of a predicate that could be used to define
>>>> the data format in a document.
>>>>
>>>> It's not the MIME type, more a level of granularity within a mime type
>>>> to represent certain evolutions of the project.
>>>>
>>>> I've looked at
>>>>
>>>> owl : versionInfo -- but that seems only to apply to ontologies
>>>> doap : version -- but that seems to apply to projects
>>>> http://www.w3.org/2000/10/swap/pim/doc#version -- seems to be the
>>>> version of the document
>>>>
>>>> What I'm looking for is a string that say the data in the document is of
>>>> a certain kind e.g. opensocial v0.1 vs opensocial v0.2
>>>>
>>>> I know RDF should be perfectly self descriptive, but this will give the
>>>> processor a hint as to what it will find, any bugs etc.
>>>>
>>>
>>> How about
>>> http://dublincore.org/documents/2012/06/14/dcmi-terms/?v=terms#MediaType
>>> or
>>> something in http://www.w3.org/ns/formats/
>>> ?
>>>
>>> HTH,
>>>
>>> ~Tim
>>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Phil Archer
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