- From: Eric Jain <Eric.Jain@isb-sib.ch>
- Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 11:58:57 +0200
- To: "M. Scott Marshall" <marshall@science.uva.nl>
- CC: Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>, wangxiao@musc.edu, Michel_Dumontier <Michel_Dumontier@carleton.ca>, public-semweb-lifesci <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>, Mark Wilkinson <markw@illuminae.com>, Benjamin Good <goodb@interchange.ubc.ca>, Natalia Villanueva Rosales <naty.vr@gmail.com>
M. Scott Marshall wrote: > During data integration or "data reuse", we have to relate statements > about 'biothings' to each other in order to be sure that we can properly > use someone else's statements/data. In that case, it is extremely > convenient if we have used the same identifier to refer to the same > 'biothing'. We would also like our statements to remain true (based on > the 'biothings' and their relations at the moment the statement was > made, even if some aspect of the data evolves (physical storage > location, new results, new relations, etc.). For integrating "biothings", http://purl.uniprot.org/uniprot/P12345 should be perfect! The main discussion at the moment is how much of a benefit there is in having a PURL for a specific representation such as the web page for P12345, in addition to the PURL for the "biothing" P12345. I'll also add support for identifiers with version numbers, e.g. http://purl.uniprot.org/uniprot/P12345.2, which should resolve to http://beta.uniprot.org/uniprot/P12345?version=2, though most of our data is not versioned, and there is no explicit syntax for versioning, either.
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