Fwd: URLs in Data Working Draft

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From: Jeni Tennison <jeni@jenitennison.com>
Date: 11 July 2013 10:49
Subject: URLs in Data Working Draft
To: public-lod@w3.org, public-rdf-wg@w3.org
Cc: "www-tag@w3.org List" <www-tag@w3.org>


Dear public-lod, RDF WG,

Some of you will have seen that the First Public Working Draft of "URLs in
Data" has been published by the TAG [1].

This document is the outcome of the call for change proposals [2] for the
TAG's 2005 decision on httpRange-14 [3].

The document purposefully does not address the issue of what a URI
'identifies' or how to discover additional information about it (beyond
best practice that has been documented elsewhere). It aims instead to
clarify the circumstances in which different communities of practice may
draw different conclusions about the content of a document on the web, and
how to avoid this by having clear definitions for the properties you use
when publishing data that uses URIs.

For RDF and linked data, the implication is that applications should focus
on the statements that are being asserted about a given URI in the data
that they have (from whatever source) to determine what to do. To avoid
misinterpretation and misuse, and particularly where there's the
possibility of ambiguity (eg 'license' or 'creator'), vocabulary authors
should state whether a given property applies to the content retrieved from
the subject URI or to something that content describes.

The TAG does not intend to work further on these issues in the immediate
future, except to respond to and integrate comments on this document.
Please send any comments on the document to www-tag@w3.org.

Cheers,

Jeni

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/urls-in-data/
[2] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/uddp/change-proposal-call.html
[3] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2005Jun/0039.html
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Jeni Tennison
http://www.jenitennison.com/