Re: New Specification Published!

On 2/7/13 11:38 AM, Ivan Herman wrote:
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> On Feb 7, 2013, at 11:30 , Antoine Isaac<aisaac@few.vu.nl>  wrote:
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>> On 2/7/13 11:27 AM, Ivan Herman wrote:
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>>> On Feb 7, 2013, at 10:59 , Antoine Isaac<aisaac@few.vu.nl>   wrote:
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>>>> Hi,
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>>>> Not sure I'm going to deliver crucial input, but in case, here are my two cents.
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>>>> - I find shorter namespaces good, and I wouldn't mind using 'oa' even if it means sthg else--first come fist serve, and it matches what other vocabularies at W3C seem to be doing. Worst case, if the group prefers a meaningful label, I'd prefer /annotation/ over /openannotation/. I suppose 'open' does not add much info in the context of a W3C namespace. Such a change would also tell something about the maturity and ambition of the initiative :-)
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>>>> - I like 'core', but that because I still would prefer the current namespace to be broken down (especially, the motivation instances could go to their own sub-space).
>>>> If the modules defined in the namespace (like 'annotation/core') do not match the modules in the spec documentation, it may be counter productive. Which makes me realize that we've got a "core of a "core",, which is a bit awkward:
>>>> http://www.openannotation.org/spec/core/core.html
>>>> But I suppose we can make it disappear when the HTML also moves to another place.
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>>>> Side question: Ivan, Phil, would it be possible to have a core in http://www.w3.org/ns/openannotation/ and later extensions in say, http://www.w3.org/ns/openannotation/ext/? Or would it ruin your dreams of simple maintenance of the namespace?
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>>> Well... this is again the # vs. / question.
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>>> Having
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>>> http://www.w3.org/ns/annotation/core#BLABLA
>>> http://www.w3.org/ns/annotation/ext1#BLABLA
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>>> is of course no problem. Having '/' means a file per term, which means the maintenance costs become higher. Whether that is spread over several directories is of course not a real difference. It will be the number of terms that will count (in contrast to the number of extensions in the case of a '#' approach).
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>> Sorry Ivan I've been unclear--and typed one slash too many. I meant:
>> http://www.w3.org/ns/annotation#BLABLA
>> http://www.w3.org/ns/annotation/ext1#BLABLA\
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> Hm... I think the server would be messed up with the
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> http://www.w3.org/ns/annotation
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> whether it is a file or a directory name... If that is the line we go, then I think
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>>> http://www.w3.org/ns/annotation/core#BLABLA
>>> http://www.w3.org/ns/annotation/ext1#BLABLA
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> is definitely simpler.
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> (Unless somebody has a neat trick to fool apache!)


OK, that's the kind of problem I was afraid of. So my suggestion for making extensions NS co-exist with an 'implicit' core NS is a no-go.

Antoine

Received on Thursday, 7 February 2013 10:47:48 UTC