Re: WNet review

Guus,

Thanks for posting!

On Thursday 09 February 2006 16:50, Guus Schreiber wrote:
> There is a revised editor's draft of the "WordNet in RDF/OWL"
> document, 


Just a tiny thing in the hash vs. slash discussion:
http://wordnet.princeton.edu/wn#107909067-bank-n/
	
http://wordnet.princeton.edu/wn/107909067-bank-n/

I believe it would be customary to not use a trailing slash on the 
fragment identifier, so you might find it preferable to use
http://wordnet.princeton.edu/wn#107909067-bank-n

I fully support the use of the slash rather than the hash in this 
context. But was wondering why you do not use slashes as delimiters 
more? 

Why not e.g.:
http://wordnet.princeton.edu/wn/107909067/bank/n/
or another example, including a wn version:
http://wordnet.princeton.edu/wn/2.0/bank/noun/1/

Or perhaps you'd like a single retrievable resource for that term, it 
intuitively makes sense to use a fragment identifier for different 
meanings, so perhaps reintroduce the hash again:
http://wordnet.princeton.edu/wn/2.0/bank/noun#1

Allthough I'm a big fan of decoupling the the URI from the filesystem, 
clearly in this case (given that it changes seldom and that there are a 
quite high number of terms), it would lend itself quite nice to being 
stored in a file system: There has however been OSes that imposes tight 
constraints on how many files you can have in a directory. Distributing 
the terms into a file hierarchy may therefore ease the serving of the 
resources.

Also, I usually think of slashes as delimiters as prettier in URIs... 
But that's just aesthetics... :-)

Best,

Kjetil
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Kjetil Kjernsmo
Information Systems Developer
Opera Software ASA

Received on Thursday, 9 February 2006 16:36:45 UTC