- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 12:33:15 -0500
- To: Eric Jain <Eric.Jain@isb-sib.ch>
- Cc: "M. Scott Marshall" <marshall@science.uva.nl>, 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>
On Jul 16, 2007, at 4:58 AM, Eric Jain wrote: > > 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. Im really only lurking here, but reading this, an obvious strategy seems to be to use PURLs for biothings and non-PURL URIs for Webbish things like Web pages. PURL for a Web page seems like overkill anyway. Pat Hayes > > 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. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32502 (850)291 0667 mobile phayesAT-SIGNihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes
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