- From: Richard Cyganiak <richard.cyganiak@deri.org>
- Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 11:53:31 +0100
- To: public-rdfa-wg@w3.org
Hello RDFa WG members, This is a comment on Profiles in the latest RDFa WD [1]. The draft provides a mechanism for establishing term mappings using RDF triples of the following general shape: ?x rdfa:term "name" . ?x rdfa:uri "http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/name" . I ask that the mechanism be changed to the following form: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/name> rdfa:term "name" . This change should be made for the following reasons: 1. Conciseness. If one triple is enough to say it, there should be one triple. 2. Putting URIs into RDF literals is almost always an anti-pattern. 3. The principle of least surprise. 4. Using a URI simplifies the creation of self-contained profiles that contain a set of term mappings along with labels for the classes and properties, mappings to other vocabularies, presentation hints etc. 5. Using a URI simplifies the extension of existing RDF Schema documents (e.g., the RDF version of the FOAF spec) to RDFa profiles. Best, Richard [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-rdfa-core-20100803/
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