- From: Rinke Hoekstra <hoekstra@uva.nl>
- Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 17:37:12 +0100
- To: Web Ontology Language (OWL) Working Group WG <public-owl-wg@w3.org>
The links in the notes to emails by Matthew Pocock do not work as they point to message id's instead of the archive links. -Rinke On 24 okt 2007, at 23:11, Web Ontology Language (OWL) Working Group Issue Tracker wrote: > > > ISSUE-15 (ontology names): REPORTED: Ontologies should not be > required to include a URI > > http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/tracker/issues/ > > Raised by: Peter Patel-Schneider > On product: > > Reported by jlc415, Jun 11, 2007 > > The current specification *requires* that each ontology include a URI. > > The ability to specify an ontology URI (along the lines of setting a > "base" in xml or html files) can be > useful, but is completely inappropriate in many settings: the > identifier for an ontology which does > not declare a URI should be inferred from other information (such as > its location). > > Duplicating an ontology with a URI requires editing the file itself, > which disallows use of OWL files > with most systems providing automatic maintenance of different > versions of the same file. For > example, it would be valuable to be able to check OWL into a CVS, > subversion, or GIT repository and > then link to either the head of a particular branch or to a specific > version, where these different > versions are served on the web from URIs automatically assigned by > the version control system. If > the ontology includes a URI this is not possible. > > As a fix, I propose making the URI of an ontology optional. > > > ---------------------------------------------- Drs. Rinke Hoekstra Email: hoekstra@uva.nl Skype: rinkehoekstra Phone: +31-20-5253499 Fax: +31-20-5253495 Web: http://www.leibnizcenter.nl/users/rinke Leibniz Center for Law, Faculty of Law University of Amsterdam, PO Box 1030 1000 BA Amsterdam, The Netherlands ----------------------------------------------
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