- From: Mark Birbeck <mark.birbeck@webbackplane.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:31:57 +0000
- To: Ben Adida <ben@adida.net>
- Cc: RDFa <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>
Hi Ben, I don't want to detract from your broader point, but I do just want to pick up on one thing you said: > I am a little bit concerned about supporting plain CURIEs in @about, @href, > and @resource. For one, the use case is *very* limited, since the whole > point of prefixes is to reuse vocabularies, and that applies to predicates, > not to subjects and objects. This is the point I was trying to get at in my 'tokenisation' discussion [1]. As you say, prefixes have always been used for vocabulary mappings, but this has meant that the technique is inadequate when it comes to mapping full URIs -- hence the development of the CURIE approach. But also, setting the pattern as: vocab:term is exactly why every document begins with so many prefix declarations. My suggestion in the tokenisation document is to move away from working out how to map vocabularies to prefixes, and instead, to work out how to map between URIs and tokens. Regards, Mark [1] <http://webbackplane.com/mark-birbeck/blog/2009/04/30/tokenising-the-semantic-web> -- Mark Birbeck, webBackplane mark.birbeck@webBackplane.com http://webBackplane.com/mark-birbeck webBackplane is a trading name of Backplane Ltd. (company number 05972288, registered office: 2nd Floor, 69/85 Tabernacle Street, London, EC2A 4RR)
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