- From: Michael Hausenblas <michael.hausenblas@deri.org>
- Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 19:52:21 +0100
- To: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
- CC: <public-rdb2rdf-comments@w3.org>
Dan, > Now my initial comment here is very boring, apologies in advance. Not at all boring, but very true! Thanks! > > ps. another thought in passing; could r2rml configurations be used for > describing mappings from specific shapes of non-database (ie. > exported) tabular data, eg. .csv files? Is this a use case you'll > consider? Theoretically, yes, it can be used for tabular data of all kinds and shapes, but the WG has resolved this to be out of scope. Cheers, Michael -- Dr. Michael Hausenblas LiDRC - Linked Data Research Centre DERI - Digital Enterprise Research Institute NUIG - National University of Ireland, Galway Ireland, Europe Tel. +353 91 495730 http://linkeddata.deri.ie/ http://sw-app.org/about.html > From: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org> > Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 20:48:31 +0200 > To: <public-rdb2rdf-comments@w3.org> > Subject: use of rfc2606 example domain names (example.com not xyz.com) > Resent-From: <public-rdb2rdf-comments@w3.org> > Resent-Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 18:49:24 +0000 > > Hi folks > > First off, congratulations on shipping http://www.w3.org/TR/r2rml/ ... > it's an important and much needed piece of work. > > Now my initial comment here is very boring, apologies in advance. > > I notice you use the string 'xyz.com' a lot as a kind of identifier, > throughout the document. At some point you also have 'example.com'. I > don't yet understand your work well enough to be sure, but the > impression I get is that you are implying xyz.com is a kind of example > domain name for perhaps a fictional company. > > I see "http://example.com/ns#" defined to use a prefix xyz:, this is fine. > > But also the frequent appearance of 'xyz.com' makes me think you're > also using that string as an example of a domain name. If so, please > can you switch to use example.com instead. The Internet name > authorities in fact reserve example.com, example.net and example.org > for documentation examples. > > See http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2606.txt -- > "IANA has agreed to the four top level domain name reservations > specified in this document and will reserve them for the uses > indicated." > > So it's much cleaner and safer to use these reserved names. Who knows > who'll own xyz.com next year, etc. > > Like I say, a boring comment but I think worth addressing. > > thanks, > > Dan > > ps. another thought in passing; could r2rml configurations be used for > describing mappings from specific shapes of non-database (ie. > exported) tabular data, eg. .csv files? Is this a use case you'll > consider? >
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