RE: [VM] Telecon on Tuesday, 27 September

Hi Dan,

As you know, you can't actually do a GET against a URI of a SKOS Core class or prop because the frag id is not sent as part of the HTTP request.  

This dereferencing setup is designed to cover the case where you stick e.g. http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#prefLabel in your web browser.  Under the setup below, the following would happen (I'm pretty sure)...

 - A GET request to http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core is made by the browser
 - The server redirects to http://www.w3.org/TR/swbp-skos-core-spec/
 - The browser displays http://www.w3.org/TR/swbp-skos-core-spec/#prefLabel (browsers remember frag ids across redirects)

Does that answer your question?

Cheers,

Al.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Brickley [mailto:danbri@w3.org]
> Sent: 27 September 2005 12:54
> To: Miles, AJ (Alistair)
> Cc: Thomas Baker; SW Best Practices; public-esw-thes@w3.org
> Subject: Re: [VM] Telecon on Tuesday, 27 September
> 
> 
> Miles, AJ (Alistair) wrote:
> 
> >Hi Tom, all,
> >
> >Ahead of telecon today, here's a short note re intentions 
> for SKOS Core URI dereferencing.
> >
> >Currently SKOS Core does the following...
> >
> >All property & class URIs follow the pattern:
> >
> >http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#localName
> >
> >A GET against the URI http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core 
> returns a message with 'Content-type: application/rdf+xml' 
> (irrespective of what content type(s) the client asked for) 
> and response code 200. 
> >
> >To bring into line with FOAF & DCMI, I would like to propose 
> a change to this dereferencing policy.  I propose the following:
> >
> >1. A GET against http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core with 
> 'Accept: application/rdf+xml' redirects (via response code 
> 303) to the latest snapshot of the SKOS Core RDF description 
> (currently http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core/history/2005-03-31).
> >
> >(This ensures that provenance of RDF statements about SKOS 
> Core classes & props is always a historical (date-stamped) 
> snapshot, allowing run-time distinction between 'versions'.)
> >
> >2. A GET against http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core with an 
> accept field that is not 'application/rdf+xml' redirects (via 
> response code 303) to the latest version of the SKOS Core 
> Vocabulary Specification (http://www.w3.org/TR/swbp-skos-core-spec/)
> >
> >(This ensures that a click on the URI of a SKOS Core prop or 
> class in a browser will take you to the right bit of the spec.)
> >
> >How's that look?
> >  
> >
> ...and gets against URIs of specific terms?
> 
> Dan
>

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