- From: Ralph R. Swick <swick@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 08:52:46 -0400
- To: "Miles, AJ (Alistair)" <A.J.Miles@rl.ac.uk>
- Cc: <public-swbp-wg@w3.org>, <public-esw-thes@w3.org>
At 12:47 PM 9/27/2005 +0100, Miles, AJ (Alistair) wrote: >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'.) nice idea. I note the following in http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core/history/2005-03-31 : 1. <rdf:RDF xml:base="http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core"> 2. <rdf:Description rdf:about=""> 3. <dc:title xml:lang="en">SKOS Core Vocabulary</dc:title> 4. <dc:description xml:lang="en"> 5. An RDF vocabulary for encoding simple concept schemes such as thesauri and subject heading lists. 6. </dc:description> 7. <dc:creator>Alistair Miles</dc:creator> 8. <dc:creator>Nikki Rogers</dc:creator> 9. <dc:creator>Dave Beckett</dc:creator> 10. <dc:contributor> 11. Members of the public-esw-thes@w3.org mailing list. 12. </dc:contributor> 13. <dct:modified>2005-03-22</dct:modified> 14. <foaf:homepage rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core/"/> 15.</rdf:Description> Line 1 is fine, as it allows convenient relative URIs in the rest of the document. However line 2 is suspect as, for example, the date modified should apply (only?) to this historical version. I suspect that lines 7-9 probably also should be properties of a particular historical version rather than the canonical namespace. -Ralph
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