Re: [ENT] reuse of rif namespace for rif:imports.

On 21 May 2010, at 11:03, Ivan Herman wrote:

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> On May 18, 2010, at 18:54 , Axel Polleres wrote:
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>> Chime, all,
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>> I suggest to mark the URI for rif imports and namespace used still with an editor's note in section 7.1. 
>> Both, 
>> 1) I am not 100% happy with using the entailment namespace (http://www.w3.org/ns/entailment/) which seems to indicate that this is a URI defining an entailment regime
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> I agree. I am actually unhappy with this choice:-) and would prefer to avoid it.
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>> 2) the rif:imports abbreviation seems to indicate that we mean the rif: namespace (http://www.w3.org/2007/rif)
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>> So, I suggest we add an Ednote just saying:
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>> "The namespace and URI used for rif:imports is still under discussion with in the group"
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>> for now.
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> +1
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>> P.S.: Talked to the RIF guys today again in the RIF TC, they obviously want to review the doc (especially in case we reuse the rif: namespace)
>> I am personally not so fond anymore of reusing the RIF namespace, since - as rif:imports has no semantics in RIF - that might be misleading.
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> The problem is... where do we put it?
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> - sparql namespace means that it is really really sparql specific, which it is not
> - rdf or rdfs namespace would suggest that this belongs to the core functionality of RDF which is not
> - ???
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> the rif namespace is still the most logical place...

I think we can propose this and see what RIF thinks about it upon asking them explicitly for review... i
n that sense, it would make sense to do that change even now already before the upcoming pub round, to get quick feedback. 

Still I am afraid it has some awkward corner cases, that might be considered unintuitive, I have no real better suggestion except a new namespace.
As for the argument against a sparql controlled namespace... if it is not used by RIF, and not in the core functionality of RDF, I am getting afraid  
a bit we may need to ask ourselves, in what sense it is *not* sparal-specific? :-|

Axel




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