RE: odrl-ISSUE-16: Use of @base and relative URIs in examples [ODRL 2 Ontology]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mo McRoberts [mailto:Mo.McRoberts@bbc.co.uk]
> Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 6:51 PM
> >
> > I don't want to know how many people looking at the base URI and the
> relative path would have quickly known that. One could argue in web server
> terminology that /asset:9898 apparently starts at the root directory of a
host
> but many semantic people simply apply the rule "append a relative path to
> the base URI and the result is the full URI".
> 
> Why on earth would they do that? Base URI has _never_ meant that, in any
> context, ever.
> 
> I am genuinely perplexed at this idea of a base URI simply being a strict
string
> prefix, particularly given that almost everybody doing semweb has at least
> dabbled with the basic first principles of the Web and URLs to begin with.
> 
> I am fundamentally opposed to actively modifying something which
> (demonstrably) isn't broken because some people don't understand the
> basics: they will have MUCH bigger problems than this if that's the case.
> 

I only want to pin down: how to combine @base with a relative path or
@prefix with a local part follows different rules. This is a feature of
Turtle and not of ODRL but it doesn't ease the reading of ODRL examples in
Turtle.

Michael

Received on Friday, 15 November 2013 10:20:59 UTC