- From: Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 13:04:45 -0500
- To: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>, W3C RDF WG <public-rdf-wg@w3.org>
Received on Wednesday, 20 February 2013 18:04:47 UTC
I haven't followed all the discussion about dataset normalization, and I don't know the algorithm, but toward the end of today's call, it sounded like the best option may be something like Create A New URI Scheme. I do have some experience trying to do that at the IETF, and I found it quite slow and difficult. They wanted to understand why I wanted it, and they were not sympathetic to arguments that involved RDF. Things may have changed, but you might want to consider some easier options that might work just as well: - use an existing URI schema with a fixed prefix, like: http://www.w3.org/2013/dataset-id/ or tag:w3.org,2000:graph: For these, you only need the consent of the domain holder, which should be easy enough. - use a .well-known prefix, and somehow make the domain name not matter. I'm not quite sure if this would work for your application. For these, you only need a stable spec, such as a WG Note or W3C Submission. It may be that RDF's skolem constants (a variant on the second option above) will do. See https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/rdf/raw-file/default/rdf-concepts/index.html#section-skolemization I hope that helps. -- Sandro
Received on Wednesday, 20 February 2013 18:04:47 UTC