We did consider. Actually my first version of the ontology used a # namespace. Eric (in cc) was the one who suggested a / namespace, especially for the data and somehow convinced the rest of us. That was six months ago, but if I remember correctly, the idea was that at some point, each instance URI would be (should be, hopefully will be) associated with, and access to, a separate resource, which is not the case now. Agreed, we could have kept the # namespace for the ontology at least.did you consider using # rather than /? i.e. http://rdf.insee.fr/geo#code_commune rather than http://rdf.insee.fr/geo/code_commune especially for ontologies, it's a lot easier to manage.
Bernard Vatant
Knowledge
Engineering
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