Re: Changing Shortnames (proposal)

+1 to owl2-quickref and rdf-plain-literal

Happy with other choices from you or their editors.

Jie

On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 7:31 PM, Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org> wrote:
>
> The URLs for our documents have a component, called the "shortname",
> which identifies the document (in all its versions) as distinct from all
> other W3C documents.  Once the shortname is assigned, the URL
> http://www.w3.org/TR/{shortname} should in perpetuity provide the latest
> version, or at least some explanation of what happened to the document.
>
> A document's shortname can be changed, though, by just assigning a new
> one and having the old one forward to the new one.  The names themselves
> need to be approved by W3C management.
>
> I believe some of our shortnames have become obsolete, and others are a
> bit misleading.  While we're changing the really broken ones (namely
> rdf-text) it would be pretty easy to change any of the others we want to
> change.  I don't think anyone in the WG but me will have any work to do
> here, other than deciding on the new shortnames.  I can imagine we might
> want to change reference names (the text in square brackets) to match
> the shortnames at some point, but I'm not proposing doing that now; I'm
> okay with leaving that up to editors, going forward.
>
>  1. owl2-overview                Document Overview
>  2. owl2-syntax                  Structural Specification and Functional-Style
>                                 Syntax
>
>           Seems quite misleading to me.  I propose "owl2-structures",
>           but I could live with owl2-ssfs or owl2-ssafss.
>
>  3. owl2-mapping-to-rdf          Mapping to RDF Graphs
>  4. owl2-semantics               Direct Semantics
>
>           I think now that we also have rdf-based-semantics, this
>           should be owl2-direct-semantics.
>
>  5. owl2-rdf-based-semantics     RDF-Based Semantics
>  6. owl2-test                    Conformance
>
>           I assume this should be owl2-conformance now.
>
>  7. owl2-profiles                Profiles
>  8. owl2-primer                  Primer
>  9. owl2-new-features            New Features and Rationale
> 10. owl2-quick-reference         Quick Reference Guide
>
>           I'd prefer owl2-quickref, personally, although
>           owl2-quick-reference is fine.
>
> 11. owl2-xml-serialization       XML Serialization
>
>           Why did we put "serialization" there?  Why not just
>           "owl2-xml"?  Maybe there's a reason I've forgotten, some
>           other likely meaning for owl2-xml?
>
> 12. owl2-manchester-syntax       Manchester Syntax
> 13. owl2-dr-linear               Data Range Extension: Linear Equations
> 14. rdf-text                     rdf:PlainLiteral: A Datatype for RDF Plain
>                                 Literals
>
>           Obviously this should change; I suggest rdf-plain-literal
>
> That's it.  If we can resolve this at or before this week's meeting, I
> think I can make it take effect on this publication round.
>
>     -- Sandro
>
>



-- 
Jie Bao
http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~baojie

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