Re: Vote: public_key, publicKey, hasPublicKey, pubKey

On 10 October 2011 20:02, Henry Story <henry.story@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 10 Oct 2011, at 19:25, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
>>>  is for cert:pubKey  +1
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>> It may be good to be consistent with other ontologies e.g.
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>> http://payswarm.com/vocabs/security
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> A public key property refers to a URL that contains information about a public key.
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> sec: publicKey
> Status: unstable
> Domain: sec:Key, owl:Thing
> Range: xsd:anyURI
> The following example demonstrates the expression of a public key belonging to the identity https://payswarm.example.com/i/bob.
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> That is a completely different relation. The relation we are putting forward in the cert ontology is from a
> person/agent to a mathematical public key. The sec ontology refers to a different relation.
>
> So on your argument we should not use the same name then, since that would be confusing.

My current WebID public key is a URI

( http://melvincarvalho.com/#key1 )

As I try to avoid using bnodes, if I can.

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>> so cert:publicKey +1
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>> I see the point about confusion, but Java uses Double and double, for
>> class and literal, and tho it is confusing, I think still usable
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> It is not so much a question of confusion, as of making it easier to make typos.
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>
> Henry
>
> Social Web Architect
> http://bblfish.net/
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